Design For Test/ Debug (DFT/DFD)

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Design for Test/

Debug (DFT/DFD)

Our team of Design for Testability experts can help increase IC test coverage, yields and quality.
Design for Testing (DFT) and Debugging (DFD) are critical stages in the micro-architectural phase of a design.
Working in tandem with a client’s design team, our experts understand the structure of the chip which enables
them to create the complete DFT and DFD architecture.

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• Improve design testability & Coverage • Despite considering complexity


• Scoping reduction test costs LOW COST • Address domain specific methodologies

DFT & DFD – The Highlights

Team Design Solutions Technical Advantage Specialist in DFT Offshore


Architecture Development Centre
Our team includes highly • Multiple Clock and • Adept at handling standard
skilled and experienced Voltage Domains EDA tools for MBIST, LBIST, • Hierarchical & Compression • Build expertise in team
professionals ranging • Mixed signal low speed and SCAN, COMPRESSIONS, ATPG, SCAN - Retain team
from project managers, high-speed designs JTAG & iJTAG. from Mentor • iJTAG/JTAG based MBIST • Value add services
testers, programmers, • Power sensitive designs Graphics, Synopsys, and Cadence networks • Run multiple projects
designers, and • Embedded processor-based designs • DFX Verification frameworks for • DfX frameworks to address in parallel
developers. • Complex Analog testing includes - SOC Verification macros (OTP, EFUSE, PLL, LDO) • Expand teams quickly
SERDES, DDR and A/D, - And AMS Verification • High speed IO (PCIE, USB, - Cope with growth
D/A converters MIPI, DDR, SERDES) - Can also shrink the team

Tessolve asureDFT Services Overview


Continuously shrinking process nodes have introduced new and complex on-chip
variation effects creating new yield challenges. Combined with ever-increasing
design complexity with multiple memories, mixed signal blocks and IPs from
multiple vendors crammed into a single SoC, Design for Testability (DFT)
implementation and signoff has become a major challenge. The Tessolve asureDFT
services suite helps you overcome these challenges by establishing a DFT strategy
that delivers improved DFT execution quality and reduced time-to- market.
asureDFT Portfolio Expertise

• Scan (Compression/ non compression based on structure of the device and test time requirements)
Services • ATPG (stuck at, at speed or new faults based on the technology and strategy)
• Memory BIST with industry standard EDA tools • Logic BIST

• DFT Strategy/Structural Testing


Training • Exclusive trainings on JTAG, BSCAN, SCAN, MBIST
• Customized contents for customer requirements

• JTAG TAP based test controllers and verification frame works (JTAG, IEEE 1149, TAP and its customized Instructions)
Off the shelf • Test suites for Verifying BSCAN • Generating Tester compatible vectors for Post Si validation (ATE)
Components • Format conversions with ATE logs for diagnosis

Development
• Support to develop your own DFT Strategy/Structural Testing
of DFT
• Experts in developing pyhton, perl based user interactive GUI based DfT flow applications and utilities.
Methodology

• Reduced overhead no need to hire costly DFT resources • End to end support from design to silicon
Benefits • Off the shelf components reduce DFT turnaround times • Training support • Flexible business models ODC,
Re source augmentation, Managed services, Turnkey services

Recent Projects Delivered

Automotive grade Processors. Wireless Infrastructure XG modem chipsets


micro controllers Multiple devices Devices (client project)
• Technology: • 10 - 15 billion transistors • Multiple devices Technology: 7nm/14nm
130nm/180nm running, 32 cores at 5GHz, Multicore ARM CPU and DSP Tools: SPYGLASS, Synopsys,
• Tools: DC, DFTMAX, 64MB L3 Cache, > 1TB/s I/O device ~80 Sq mm , ~300K DC, Mentor ATPG
BW flops --> 600K FF
Custom memory solution Metrics, Design Details : RTL

Technology: Multiple nodes Technology: 90nm / 65nm
Metrics, Design Details: DFT analysis, DRC checks and

90nm up to 10nm FinFET


Responsible for DFT team Tools: fixes, Defining JTAG constraints
process
implementing run time Logic DC, DFTMAX, for scan modes and DFT
Bist, Memory Bist, Boundary Tools: Mentor ATPG, MBIST Tetramax ATPG, constraints for scan implemen-
Scan, analog and functional Metrics, Design Details: Custom memory bist tation with pre and post DRC
test modes. Defined the new test analysis, scan chain balancing
Metrics, Design Details:
and scan compression EDT
Architecture, Implementation, methodologies to reduce test Complete DFT Architecture,
hook up. Scan coverage analysis
validation and production time and estimate test power SCAN, MBIST, JTAG, Analog
and improvement, fault
ramp, FA support to optimize the test flow to Test, concurrent testing, pre and
accounting and fault grading.
manage test economics. DFX, post layout pattern generation
debug and bring up. and validation. ATE pattern
generation,debug and bring up.
Production, FA support.

Tessolve is the market leader in providing engineering solutions for silicon and systems development. We offer a unique combination of both
pre-silicon and post-silicon expertise to provide an efficient turnkey solution for silicon bring up, spec to a product. With 2100+ employees
worldwide, Tessolve enables customers a faster time-to-market through deep domain expertise in Analog, Digital, Mixed Signal, and RF, broad
ATE platform experience, diverse embedded software services and built-in infrastructure including a test floor, characterization, reliability lab,
system lab, and PCB FAB. Tessolve delivers ASIC design services including advanced process nodes with a strong eco-system relationship with
EDA, IP, and foundries. Tessolve’s post-silicon solution takes silicon from the foundry to high volume manufacturing. Our front-end design
strengths integrated with the knowledge from the backend flow, allows Tessolve to catch design flaws ahead in the cycle, thus reducing
expensive re-design costs, and risks.

Contact For more details https://www.tessolve.com/vlsi-design | www.tessolve.com

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