Microprocessor testing is becoming a challenging task, due to the increasing complexity of modern architectures. Nowadays, most architectures are tackled with a combination of scan chains and Software-Based Self-Test (SBST) methodologies. Among SBST techniques, evolutionary feedback-based ones prove effective in microprocessor testing: their main disadvantage, however, is the considerable time required to generate suitable test programs. A novel evolutionary-based approach, able to appreciably reduce the generation time, is presented. The proposed method exploits a high-level representation of the architecture under test and a dynamically built Finite State Machine (FSM) model to assess fault coverage without resorting to time-expensive simulations on low-level models. Experimental results, performed on an OpenRISC processor, show that the resulting test obtains a nearly complete fault coverage against the targeted fault model.

Evolution of Test Programs Exploiting a FSM Processor Model / SANCHEZ SANCHEZ, EDGAR ERNESTO; Squillero, Giovanni; Tonda, ALBERTO PAOLO. - STAMPA. - 6625:(2011), pp. 162-171. (Intervento presentato al convegno EvoApplications 2011: EvoCOMNET, EvoFIN, EvoHOT, EvoMUSART, EvoSTIM, and EvoTRANSLOG tenutosi a Torino (ITA) nel April 27-29, 2011) [10.1007/978-3-642-20520-0_17].

Evolution of Test Programs Exploiting a FSM Processor Model

SANCHEZ SANCHEZ, EDGAR ERNESTO;SQUILLERO, Giovanni;TONDA, ALBERTO PAOLO
2011

Abstract

Microprocessor testing is becoming a challenging task, due to the increasing complexity of modern architectures. Nowadays, most architectures are tackled with a combination of scan chains and Software-Based Self-Test (SBST) methodologies. Among SBST techniques, evolutionary feedback-based ones prove effective in microprocessor testing: their main disadvantage, however, is the considerable time required to generate suitable test programs. A novel evolutionary-based approach, able to appreciably reduce the generation time, is presented. The proposed method exploits a high-level representation of the architecture under test and a dynamically built Finite State Machine (FSM) model to assess fault coverage without resorting to time-expensive simulations on low-level models. Experimental results, performed on an OpenRISC processor, show that the resulting test obtains a nearly complete fault coverage against the targeted fault model.
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