High level ATPG is important and is on its way!
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High-coverage ATPG for datapath circuits with unimplemented blocks
Conventional ATPG cannot effectively handle designs employing IP circuits (cores) whose implementation details are either unknown, unavailable, or subject to change. A new ATPG program RIBTEC for such designs is described that employs a functional (behavioral) fault model based on a class of non-exhaustive “universal” test sets. Given a circuit’s high-level block structure, RIBTEC constructs a ...
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