title: Self-Testing Digital Systems
reg no: ETF5910
project type: Estonian Science Foundation research grant
subject: 2.9. System Engineering and Computer Technology
status: accepted
institution: TTU Faculty of Information Technology
head of project: Raimund Ubar
duration: 01.01.2004 - 31.12.2007
description: The main goal of the current project is to develop new methods, algorithms and software tools for design of self-testing digital systems.

The main problems and objectives to be investigated are:
- develoment, evaluation and optimization of hybrid BIST architectures of digital systems;
- develoment, evaluation and optimization of functional BIST of digital systems;
- methods for BIST driven design for testability of digital systems;
- development of new methods for design of self-testing digital systems by combining hybrid and functional BIST approaches with design for testability.

The following outcome of the project is expected:
- new architectures for implementing hybrid BIST conception in digital systems;
- cost models for new different hybrid BIST architectures;
- fast and simple cost estimation algorithms and tools for evaluation of solutions for hybrid BIST;
- methods for minimizing hybrid BIST cost at given different constraints;
- new test generation, fault simulation, test ordering and cost calculation tools and experimental research environment for carrying out optimization procedures for hybrid and functional BIST;
- new methods of functional BIST for digital systems;
- new methods of combining hybrid and functional BIST methods with design for testability.

project group
no name institution position  
1.Marina BrikTallinn Technical Universityteadur 
2.Artur JutmanTallinn Technical Universityteadur 
3.Helena KruusTallinn Technical Universityassistent 
4.Elmet OrassonTallinn Technical Universitydoktorant 
5.Jaan RaikTallinn Technical Universityvanemteadur 
6.Raimund UbarTTU Faculty of Information TechnologyProfessor