On-line testing for VLSI—a compendium of approaches

M Nicolaidis, Y Zorian - Journal of Electronic Testing, 1998 - Springer
This paper presents an overview of a comprehensive collection of on-line testing techniques
for VLSI. Such techniques are for instance: self-checking design, allowing high quality …

Novel totally self-checking Berger code checker designs based on generalized Berger code partitioning

TRN Rao, GL Feng, MS Kolluru… - IEEE transactions on …, 1993 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Totally self-checking (TSC) Berger code checker designs are presented. The generalized
Berger check partitioning is derived. It is proven that a TSC Berger code checker can be …

Membership test logic for delay-insensitive codes

SJ Piestrak - … on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits …, 1998 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Delay-insensitive (unordered) codes have been used to encode data in various
asynchronous systems such as asynchronous circuits and buses. In this paper, a new …

Reliable floating-point arithmetic algorithms for error-coded operands

JC Lo - IEEE Transactions on Computers, 1994 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reliable floating-point arithmetic is vital for dependable computing systems. It is also
important for future high-density VLSI realizations that are vulnerable to soft-errors …

On the design of self-testing checkers for modified Berger codes

SJ Piestrak, D Bakalis… - … Seventh International On …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of several approaches for designing highly-reliable systems relies on using error
detecting codes (EDCs) and implementing digital circuits as self-checking. One class of …

Self-checking design in Eastern Europe

SJ Piestrak - IEEE Design & Test of Computers, 1996 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This survey introduces the design concepts of self-checking circuits and discusses research
activities in on-line hardware-checking techniques developed in Eastern Europe, including …

Design method of a class of embedded combinational self-testing checkers for two-rail codes

SJ Piestrak - IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper tackles the open problem of designing combinational self-testing checkers
(STCs) for K-pair 2-rail codes which are self-testing, even by a subset of codewords, such …

Modular implementation of efficient self-checking checkers for the Berger code

DA Pierce, PK Lala - Journal of Electronic Testing, 1996 - Springer
A technique for designing efficient checkers for conventional Berger code is proposed in this
paper. The check bits are derived by partitioning the information bits into two blocks, and …

Design of encoders and self-testing checkers for some systematic unidirectional error detecting codes

SJ Piestrak - 1997 IEEE International Symposium on Defect and …, 1997 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several schemes for designing encoders and self-testing checkers (STCs) for systematic
unidirectional error detecting (UED) codes are known. In this paper, we propose the new …

On TSC Checkers for m-out-of-n Codes

VV Dimakopoulos, G Sourtziotis… - IEEE transactions on …, 1995 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Paschalis et al.(1988) have given a structured method to design TSC m-out-of-2m code
checkers suitable for VLSI implementation. In this correspondence we give sufficient …