Design-for-Test: Scan and ATPG

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Duration: 4 Days
Pricing: 2,000 GBP (2,960 EUR)
Course Part Number: 057857

Description

The Design-for-Test: Scan and ATPG course is designed to drive the development of your skills and knowledge in scan and ATPG design processes utilizing Mentor Graphics tools: DFTAdvisor, FastScan, , MacroTest, DFTInsight and ModelSim®.

This course teaches you how to insert full scan in a design using the DFTAdvisor tool flow, and shows you how to create high quality test patterns using the FastScan tool flow.

The hands-on labs are designed to reinforce key concepts through practical experience and to develop proficiency with Mentor Graphics DFT tool suite under the guidance of our industry-expert instructors.

You will learn how to

  • Configure scan chains/test logic and insert full scan
  • Understand ATPG messaging
  • Achieve high test coverage
  • Create high quality patterns
  • Understand advanced test methodologies
  • Troubleshoot areas of low test coverage
  • Troubleshoot DRC and simulation mismatch

Hands-On Labs

  • Using the Graphical User Interface (GUI)
  • Accessing information
  • Scan and ATPG tool flow (with and without a design rule violation)
  • Setting up new and existing scan pins (internal or external)
  • Balancing scan chains with multiple clock domains
  • Writing and editing scan chain order files and stitching
  • Reading and analyzing messages
  • Determining the cause of undetected faults and adding Nofaults
  • Common methodologies to attain a quick estimate of test coverage
  • Creating and saving patterns in different formats
  • Verifying patterns using ModelSim®
  • Reading ASCII files into FastScan
  • Modifying timeplates
  • Compression techniques
  • Creating fault models and fault grading
  • MacroTest and top-up ATPG
  • Fault grading boundary scan and top-up ATPG
  • Troubleshooting areas of low test coverage
  • Troubleshooting DRC and simulation mismatch-full tool flow
  • Debugging mismatches with automated tool

Audience

  • Designers, Design-for-Test Engineers and Test Consultants involved with creating testable ASICs and ICs and producing the manufacturing test sets
  • Traditional test engineers
  • CAD engineers and managers
  • CAD staff seeking to understand the effect of DFT on the design flow

 Prerequisites

  • Experience with UNIX environments
  • A basic background in DFT

Key Points

  • Basic scan concepts and DFT flow
  • Accessing SupportNet information
  • Scan and ATPG flow
  • DFTAdvisor tool flow
  • Design Rules Checking (DRC)
  • DFTInsight
  • FastScan tool flow
  • Full scan
  • Inserting test logic
  • Defining pins
  • Balancing scan chains
  • Clocks
  • Test coverage reporting
  • FastScan pattern types
  • Reuse, debugging, and diagnostics
  • Time-based verification
  • Creating and optimizing patterns
  • Black boxes
  • Testing embedded memories
  • Boundary scan
  • Top up ATPG
  • Fault grading
  • Troubleshooting areas of low test coverage
  • Hierarchy browser
  • Fault classes
  • Debugging bus contention
  • Analyzing DRC violations
  • Handling C1, C3, C6, D5,D6, E4, E10, T3 , T4, T5, and various other DRC violations
  • Debugging simulation mismatches
  • Clock skew problems
  • Timing violations
  • Chain test

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