TY - JOUR
T1 - Memory test and repair technique for SoC based devices
AU - Ahmed, Mohammed Altaf
AU - Eljialy, Abubaker E.M.
AU - Ahmad, Sultan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2021 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
PY - 2021/4/25
Y1 - 2021/4/25
N2 - System on Chip (SoC) architecture mainly consists of the memories in a larger area. Due to the availability of memories in a larger-size, it is difficult to test these memories for faults. Therefore, a smooth test solution to test these memories against fault and repair the faulty cells has introduced. In this research, we proposed a Memory Test Controller (MTC) to test the memories and Built-in Self-repair (BISR) mechanism to repair the faulty cells for any recent SoC based devices. The MTC not only identifies the fault, but it finds the type of fault available, and BISR block repairs the detected faulty cells. The paper provides empirical insights about how change is brought in features of the SoC based device after integrating both the proposed controller block. It is noticed that from the obtained results, the proposed methods are stands better in terms of the area overhead, power and timing when compared with the existing approaches.
AB - System on Chip (SoC) architecture mainly consists of the memories in a larger area. Due to the availability of memories in a larger-size, it is difficult to test these memories for faults. Therefore, a smooth test solution to test these memories against fault and repair the faulty cells has introduced. In this research, we proposed a Memory Test Controller (MTC) to test the memories and Built-in Self-repair (BISR) mechanism to repair the faulty cells for any recent SoC based devices. The MTC not only identifies the fault, but it finds the type of fault available, and BISR block repairs the detected faulty cells. The paper provides empirical insights about how change is brought in features of the SoC based device after integrating both the proposed controller block. It is noticed that from the obtained results, the proposed methods are stands better in terms of the area overhead, power and timing when compared with the existing approaches.
KW - BISR
KW - Fault types detection
KW - Faults in memory
KW - MTC
KW - SoC
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85105930335&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1587/ELEX.18.20210092
DO - 10.1587/ELEX.18.20210092
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85105930335
SN - 1349-2543
VL - 18
JO - IEICE Electronics Express
JF - IEICE Electronics Express
IS - 8
M1 - 18.20210092
ER -