This paper presents a BIST architecture, based on a single micro-programmable BIST Processor and a set of memory Wrappers, designed to simplify the test of a system containing many distributed multi-port SRAMs of different sizes (number of bits, number of words), access protocol (asynchronous, synchronous), and timing.

Article history: Received 29 June 2010 Received in revised form 18 October 2012 Accepted 18 October 2012 Available online 20 November 2012 0045-7906/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2012.10.00 q Reviews processed and approved for publication ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +3

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Marco d’Ischia 1,* ID and Daniel Ruiz-Molina 2,* ID 1 Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cintia 4, I-80126 Naples, Italy 2 Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and BIST, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain * Correspondence: [email protected] (M.d.I); [email protected] (D.R.-M.); Tel.: +39-081-674132 (M.d.I.); +34-093-737...