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A Designer's Guide to Built-in Self-Test (Frontiers in Electronic Testing)

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Built-in Self-Test is now highly desirable in chip design. As the linewidth keeps decreasing, and the number of transistors rises, the sheer complexity necessitates BIST as a basic design principle. Hence Stroud offers you a recent and timely survey of BIST methods. The writing quality is not bad, and he gives a good coverage of the most common methods used in the industry.

Whether some of these prove practical in your situation is another matter, of course. If you have existing standard cells that you must use, or conform to, and a fab with specific design rules, then some BIST methods might be precluded.