Date: Wednesday 11 March 2015
Time: 14:30 - 16:00
Location / Room: Bayard
Chair:
Juergen Schloeffel, Mentor, DE
Co-Chair:
Sybille Hellebrand, Universität Paderborn, DE
The section presents low power solutions for scan-based test and a new redundant TSV architecture for 3-D ICs
| Time | Label | Presentation Title Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 14:30 | 7.6.1 | DP-FILL : A DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING APPROACH TO X-FILLING FOR MINIMIZING PEAK TEST POWER IN SCAN TESTS Speakers: Satya A. Trinadh1, Sobhan Babu Ch.1, Shiv Govind Singh1, Seetal Potluri2 and Kamakoti V2 1Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, IN; 2Indian Institute of Technology Madras, IN Abstract At-speed testing is crucial to catch small delay defects that occur during the manufacture of high performance digital chips. Launch- Off-Capture (LOC) and Launch-Off-Shift (LOS) are two prevalently used schemes for this purpose. LOS scheme achieves higher fault coverage while consuming lesser test time over LOC scheme, but dissipates higher power during the capture phase of the at-speed test. Excessive IR-drop during capture phase on the power grid causes false delay failures leading to significant yield reduction that is unwarranted. As reported in literature, an intelligent filling of don't care bits (X-filling) in test cubes has yielded significant power reduction. Given that the tests output by ATPG tools for big circuits have large number of don't care bits, the X-filling technique is very effective for them. Assuming that the DFT preserves the state of the combinational logic between capture phases of successive patterns, this paper maps the problem of optimal X-filling for peak power minimization during LOS scheme to a variant of interval coloring problem and proposes a dynamic programming (DP) algorithm for the same along with a theoretical proof for its optimality. The proposed algorithm when experimented on ITC99 benchmarks produced peak power savings of up to 34% over the best known low power X-filling algorithm for LOS testing. Interestingly, it is observed that the power savings increase with the size of the circuit. Download Paper (PDF; Only available from the DATE venue WiFi) |
| 15:00 | 7.6.2 | A SCAN PARTITIONING ALGORITHM FOR REDUCING CAPTURE POWER OF DELAY-FAULT LBIST Speakers: Nan Li1, Elena Dubrova2 and Gunnar Carlsson3 1Royal Institute of Technology, SE; 2Ericsson AB/Royal Institute of Technology - KTH, SE; 3Development Unit Radio, Ericsson AB, SE Abstract It is well-known that high power consumption in test mode can cause problems such as overheating and IR-drop which have negative effect on circuit reliability and yield. The problem is particularly hard in the case of at-speed delay-fault testing where it cannot be mitigated by lowering the clock frequency. The difficulty increases even further if pseudo-random rather than ATPG patterns are used for testing. ATPG patterns can be chosen selectively, as well as re-ordered and specified in a power-friendly manner. This is not possible with pseudo-random test patterns. In this paper, we present a scan partitioning algorithm for reducing capture power targeting delay-fault LBIST. The algorithm uses a novel weighted S-graph model in which the weights are determined by signal probability analysis. Our experimental results show that, on average, the presented method reduces average capture power by 50% and peak capture power by 39% with less than 2% loss in the transition fault coverage. Download Paper (PDF; Only available from the DATE venue WiFi) |
| 15:30 | 7.6.3 | ARCHITECTURE OF RING-BASED REDUNDANT TSV FOR CLUSTERED FAULTS Speakers: Wei-Hen Lo, Kang Chi and TingTing Hwang, National Tsing Hua University, TW Abstract Three-dimensional Integrated Circuits (3D-ICs) that employ the Through-Silicon Vias (TSVs) vertically stacking multiple dies provide many benefits, such as high density, high bandwidth, low-power. However, the fabrication and bonding of TSVs may fail because of many factors, such as the winding level of the thinned wafers, the surface roughness and cleaness of silicon dies, and bonding technology. To improve the yield of 3D-ICs, many redundant TSV architectures were proposed to repair 3D-ICs with faulty TSVs. These methods reroute siganls of faulty TSVs to other regular or redundant TSVs. In practice, the faulty TSVs may cluster because of imperfect bonding technology. To resolve the problem of clustered TSV faults, router-based [1] redundant TSV architecture was the first paper proposed to pay attention to this clustering problem. Their method enables faulty TSVs to be repaired by redundant TSVs that are farther apart. However, for some rarely occurring defective patterns, their method consumes too much area. In this paper, we propose a ring-based redundant TSV architecture to utilize the area more efficiently as well as to maintain high yield. Simulation results show that for a given number of TSVs (8×8) and TSV failure rate (1%), our design achieves 55% area reduction of MUXes per signal, while the yield of our ring-based redundant TSV architectures can still maintain 98.47% to 99.00% as compared with router-based desgin [1]. Furthermore, the minimum shifting length of our ring-based redundant TSV architecture is at most 1 which guarantees the minimum timing overhead of each signal. Download Paper (PDF; Only available from the DATE venue WiFi) |
| 16:00 | IP3-14, 72 | FEEDBACK-BUS OSCILLATION RING: A GENERAL ARCHITECTURE FOR DELAY CHARACTERIZATION AND TEST OF INTERCONNECTS Speakers: Shi-Yu Huang1, Meng-Ting Tsai1, Kun-Han Tsai2 and Wu-Tung Cheng2 1National Tsing Hua University, TW; 2Mentor, US Abstract In this paper we propose a flexible delay characterization and test method for arbitrary die-to-die interconnects in a 3D IC. As compared to previous works, it is unique in its ability to streamline the characterization/test operations for a set of arbitrary interconnects with multiple pins sprawling multiple dies. During the Design-for-Testability stage, one common feedback-bus (connected to all dies in the IC under characterization/test) is inserted. Through the feedback-bus, a oscillation ring can be formed dynamically and the Variable-Output-Threshold (VOT) technique can be applied to characterize the delay of a selected interconnect segment at a time. Experimental results indicate that this method is not only flexible and scalable, but requiring only a small area overhead. Download Paper (PDF; Only available from the DATE venue WiFi) |
| 16:00 | End of session Coffee Break in Exhibition Area Coffee Break in Exhibition AreaOn all conference days (Tuesday to Thursday), coffee and tea will be served during the coffee breaks at the below-mentioned times in the exhibition area. Lunch BreakOn Tuesday and Wednesday, lunch boxes will be served in front of the session room Salle Oisans and in the exhibition area for fully registered delegates (a voucher will be given upon registration on-site). On Thursday, lunch will be served in Room Les Ecrins (for fully registered conference delegates only). Tuesday, March 10, 2015Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:30 Lunch Break 13:00 - 14:30; Keynote session from 13:20 - 14:20 (Room Oisans) sponsored by Mentor Graphics Coffee Break 16:00 - 17:00 Wednesday, March 11, 2015Coffee Break 10:00 - 11:00 Lunch Break 12:30 - 14:30, Keynote lectures from 12:50 - 14:20 (Room Oisans) Coffee Break 16:00 - 17:00 Thursday, March 12, 2015Coffee Break 10:00 - 11:00 Lunch Break 12:30 - 14:00, Keynote lecture from 13:20 - 13:50 Coffee Break 15:30 - 16:00 |