An On-Chip IEEE 1687 Network Controller for Reliability and Functional Safety Management of System-on-Chips

Ahmed M.Y. Ibrahim; Hans G. Kerkhoff

doi:10.1109/ITC-Asia.2019.00032

An On-Chip IEEE 1687 Network Controller for Reliability and Functional Safety Management of System-on-Chips

Ahmed M.Y. Ibrahim^*, Hans G. Kerkhoff

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The IEEE 1687 standard defines a standardized mechanism for the off-chip access of embedded instruments. A subset of these instruments are also used for maintaining the reliability and functional safety of the chip during its lifetime. For example, temperature sensors, voltage monitors and Built-In-Self-Test engines. In this paper, we present a novel on-chip controller for IEEE 1687 networks which can execute instrument procedures documented in the IEEE 1687 PDL language. These procedures are incorporated within the reliability and functional safety embedded software that uses the measurements data of the instruments. The controller includes an efficient structural model of the IEEE 1687 network and can perform on-chip pattern retargeting on arbitrary networks. In addition, it can perform localization of instrument interrupts that are propagated via multi-mode IEEE 1687 networks.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2019 IEEE International Test Conference in Asia (ITC-Asia)
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-7281-4718-5
ISBN (Print)	978-1-7281-4719-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ITC-Asia.2019.00032
Publication status	Published - 3 Sep 2019
Event	2019 IEEE International Test Conference in Asia, ITC-Asia - Tokyo, Japan Duration: 3 Sep 2019 → 5 Sep 2019

Conference

Conference	2019 IEEE International Test Conference in Asia, ITC-Asia
Abbreviated title	ITC-Asia
Country	Japan
City	Tokyo
Period	3/09/19 → 5/09/19

Keywords

IEEE 1687
IJTAG
Embedded instruments
Dependability
Reliability
Functional safety

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