Process for testing integrated circuits with at least one logic circuit and testable integrated circuit
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorClaus-Peter Zepp
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Abstract
For real-time testing, two test combinations TK1 and TK2 are written to the input trigger circuits (EK1 to EK2) of the logic circuit (LS1) to be tested and to the output trigger circuits (AP1 to AP2) of the upstream test device (TE) or of an upstream logic circuit (LSO). The second test combination TK2 is transferred with the first system test pulse to the input trigger circuits (EK1 to EK3), and with the second test pulse the associated output combination (AT2) is transferred into the output trigger circuits (AK1 to AK2). This output combination is subsequently transferred into the test device (E) and checked. An integrated circuit suitable for carrying out the process has trigger circuits with two clock inputs.
Claims10
A process for testing integrated modules having at least one logic circuit, said at least one logic circuit having a logic network surrounded by boundary-scan cells, in which process, for static testing in a serial mode, input trigger circuits and output trigger circuits of the boundary-scan cells are connected in series as shift registers for serial writing and reading of test information, and at least one test combination being written to at least one of the input trigger circuits and the output trigger circuits, comprising the steps of:
- for dynamic testing, in an operating mode, connecting the input trigger circuits into signal lines between input terminal points of the logic circuit and inputs of the logic network, connecting the output trigger circuits into signal lines between the outputs of the logic network and output terminal points of the logic circuit;
- for dynamic testing, writing a first test combination to the at least one of the input trigger circuits and the output trigger circuits applying at least one second test combination from parallel outputs of a test device or of an upstream logic circuit to the input terminal points of the input trigger circuits;
- before the dynamic testing with at least two successive system test pulses, switching the input trigger circuits and the output trigger circuits from the serial mode into the operating mode;
- transferring with a first system test pulse the second test combination, and transferring with each further system test pulse a further test combination, in parallel into the input trigger circuits;
- storing with a second system test pulse, and storing with each further system test pulse, an output combination of the at least one logic circuit as a logical sequence of the second test combination, and of further test combinations, in the output trigger circuits;
- and checking the output combinations in the test device.
A testable integrated circuit having at least one logic circuit, said at least one logic circuit having a logic network surrounded by boundary-scan cells, said integrated circuit, for serial writing and reading of test information, input trigger circuits and output trigger circuits of the boundary-scan cells being connected in series as shift registers, comprising:
- for dynamic testing and in an operating mode, the input trigger circuits connected into signal lines between input terminal points of the logic circuit and inputs of the logic network, and the output trigger circuits connected into signal lines between outputs of the logic network and output terminal points of the logic circuit.
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