Instruction-based self-testing of processor cores

Proceedings of the IEEE VLSI Test Symposium

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 223-228

  Kranitis, N ^a   Gizopoulos, D ^b   Paschalis, A ^a   Zorian, Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^c LogicVision Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Application software; Automatic testing; Built in self test; Frequency; Informatics; Integrated circuit testing; Logic testing; Software testing; System testing; Test pattern generators

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; AUTOMATIC TESTING; BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TESTING; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; SOFTWARE TESTING; SYSTEM-ON-CHIP;

FREQUENCY; INFORMATICS; LOGIC TESTING; SYSTEM TESTING; TEST PATTERN GENERATOR;

BUILT-IN SELF TEST;

EID: 0043195905     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VTS.2002.1011142     Document Type: Conference Paper

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