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A Memristor-based Scan Hold Flip-Flop

  • Aijiao Cui
  • , Zhenxing Chang
  • , Ziming Wang
  • , Gang Qu
  • , Huawei Li
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen
  • University of Maryland, College Park
  • SKLCA Institute of Computing Technology

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Abstract

The scan based design-for-Testability (DfT) has been widely adopted in modern integrated circuits (ICs) design to facilitate manufacture testing. However, the transitions in scan cells result in much test power consumption during testing. The scan hold flip-flop (SHFF) can insulate the transitions in scan chain from the circuit under test to reduce test power while incurring much area overhead. We propose to solve this problem by adopting a memristor-based D flip-flop (DFF) into SHFF. The new design breaks down the design structure of conventional CMOS scan cells and adopts memristors into SHFF to reduce the number of transistors and hence the chip area. The functionality of the proposed design is verified to be correct by HSPICE simulation. Compared with the conventional SHFF cells, the area overhead is reduced 26.5%

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2019 IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium, NVMSA 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781728138541
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event8th IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium, NVMSA 2019 - Hangzhou, China
Duration: 18 Aug 201921 Aug 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2019 IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium, NVMSA 2019

Conference

Conference8th IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium, NVMSA 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHangzhou
Period18/08/1921/08/19

Keywords

  • SHFF
  • low overhead
  • memristor
  • non-volatile

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