F. Corno, M. Sonza Reorda, Giovanni Squillero, M. Violante
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Abstract
Circular Self-Test Path (CSTP) is an attractive technique for implementing BIST in sequential circuits; unfortunately, there are cases in which the fault coverage it attains is unacceptably low. This paper proposes a new architecture, named CA-CSTP, which overcomes these limitations and always reaches a high fault coverage by exploiting a slightly more complex chain cell based on a Cellular Automata architecture. Experimental results show the effectiveness of our proposal.