Wednesday, May 16

6:30 - 7:30pm

Welcome Reception and Registration

7:30 - 9:00pm

Evening Panel Session: Coordinator and Moderator: Linda Milor, Georgia Tech.

Thursday, May 17

7:00 - 8:00am

Breakfast

8:00 - 8:15am

Opening Remarks: Sule Ozev (General Chair) and Chuck Stroud (Program Chair)

8:15 - 9:00am

Keynote Address: In-System Silicon Validation and Debug – A New Look

by Dr. Miron Abramovici, DAFCA, Inc.

9:00 - 9:45am

Invited Talk: Architectural Vulnerability Factor (or Does a Soft Error Matter?)

by Dr. Shubu Mukherjee, Intel Corp.

9:45 - 10:00am

Coffee Break

10:00 - 11:00am

Student Session I: Scan Design and Test, Session Chair: Chuck Stroud

 

1.1  “A New Design-for-Test Technique to Enhance Performance of Broadcast Scan-based Compressor”, Rajamani Sethuram* (Rutgers Univ.) SeongmoonWang, Srimat T. Chakradhar (NEC Labs), and  Michael L. Bushnell (Rutgers Univ.)

1.2  “A Co-evolutionary Algorithm for Dynamic Power Minimization During Scan Testing”, Alodeep Sanyal* (Univ. of Massachusetts), Artem Sokolov, Yashwant Malaiya and Darrell Whitley (Colorado State Univ.)

1.3   “SPARTAN: A Spectral and Information Theoretic Approach to Partial Scan” Omar Khan* and Michael L. Bushnell (Rutgers Univ.)

11:00 - 12:00pm

Student Session II: Delay Testing, Session Chair: Jennifer Dworak

 

2.1  “High Coverage Delay Test with Partial DTSFF Scan Chains”, Gefu Xu* and Adit D. Singh (Auburn Univ.)

2.2  “Combinational Hardware False Path Identification without Search”, Gagandeep Sandha* Michael L. Bushnell and Rajamani Sethuram (Rutgers Univ.)

2.3  “Delay Fault Testing in Presence of Maximum Crosstalk”, Jeremy Lee* and Mohammad Tehranipoor, (Univ. of Connecticut)

12:00 - 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00 - 2:00pm

Student Session III: New Research in Testing, Session Chair: Linda Milor

 

3.1  “Optimisation of IEEE 1500 Wrappers and User Defined TAMs”, Michael Higgins*, Ciaran MacNamee and Brendan Mullane (Univ. Limerick, Ireland)

3.2  “Optimizing Tests for Multiple Fault Models”, Nitin Yogi* and Vishwani D. Agrawal (Auburn Univ.)

3.3  “A Graph Condensation Based Transitive Closure Algorithm for Implication Graphs to Identify False Paths”, Rajamani Sethuram* and Michael L. Bushnell (Rutgers Univ.)

2:00 - 2:15pm

Coffee Break

2:15 - 3:35pm

Student Session IV: Testing Special Structures, Session Chair: Vishwani Agrawal

 

4.1  “Improving the Bit-Error Rate Performance of the Serializer-Deserializer (SERDES) Circuits with Jitter Reduction Hardware”, Hari V. Venkatanarayanan* and Michael L. Bushnell (Rutgers Univ.)

4.2  “Multi-Port SRAM Tests with Process Variation Considerations”, Richa Hajela* and Xinghao Chen (City Univ. of New York)

4.3  “Analysis and Evaluation of Routing BIST Approaches for FPGAs”, Bobby E. Dixon*  and Charles E. Stroud (Auburn Univ.)

4.4  “Wafer Level Loop-Back Test with Out-of-Band Signals”, Erdem S. Erdogan* and Sule Ozev (Duke Univ.)

4:00pm - ?

Social Program:  Sight Seeing and Dinner in Boston

Friday, May 18

7:00 - 8:00am

Breakfast

8:00 - 9:40am

Session V: Delay Testing, Session Chair: Mike Bushnell

 

5.1  “At-Speed and ATE-Driven Delay Test of Contract-Manufactured ASICs”, Vikram Iyengar*, Kenneth Pichamuthu, Andy Ferko, Frank Woytowich, Dave Lackey,Gary Grise, Mark Taylor, Mike Degregorio and Steve Oakland (IBM Microelectronics and IBM Engineering & Technology Services)

5.2  Delay Fault Testing of Interconnect Logic Between Embedded Cores”, Ramesh C. Tekumalla* (AMD, Inc.) 

5.3  “IR-drop Tolerant Transition Delay Fault Testing”, Nisar Ahmed, Mohammad Tehranipoor* (Univ. of Connecticut) and Vinay Jayaram (Texas Instruments, Inc.)

5.4  “High Resolution Delay Testing of Interconnect Paths in Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGAs”, Jack Smith (IBM Corporation) and Tian Xia*(Univ. of Vermont)

9:40 - 10:00am

Coffee Break

10:00 - 11:40am

Session VI: Scan Test and Power, Session Chair: Vikram Iyengar

 

6.1  “Reducing Test Cost and Power Consumption by Modular Embedded Deterministic Test (EDT) Flow”, David Hong, Fiona Zhou (Atmel Semiconductor), Wu Yang, Yu Huang* and Actel Niu (Mentor Graphics Corp.)

6.2  “On Identifying and Bypassing Faulty Scan Segments”, Ramesh C. Tekumalla* and Darin Lee (AMD, Inc.)

6.3   “Scan Shift Power Reduction by Freezing Power Sensitive Scan Cells”, Xijiang Lin* and Yu Huang (Mentor Graphics Corp.)

6.4  “Towards Universal Built-In Scan Structures for ASIC Implementation Platforms”, Xinghao Chen (City Univ. of New York)

11:40 - 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00 - 3:05pm

Session VII: Debug the Test?, Session Chair: Chuck Stroud

 

7.1  “Test Set Optimization for Minimizing Field Failure Rates due to Test Escapes”, Jennifer L. Dworak (Brown Univ.)

7.2  “Clock-Data Race Aware Logic Diagnosis”, Yu Huang*, Wu-Tung Cheng and Ruifeng Guo (Mentor Graphics Corp.)

7.3  “Transitioning from Validation Environment and Content for Cache Resident Functional Test (CRFT)”, Andrew Angle* and Bryan Gran (Intel Massachusetts, Inc.)

7.4  “Modular Benefits of Hierarchical DFT: A Comprehensive Test Case”, Chris Tice, Joshua Zelman* and Rachana Shah (Intel Corp.)

7.5   “X-Cancelling – A Way to Compact Output Responses with X’s Using a MISR”, Nur A. Touba (Univ. of Texas at Austin)