A design for testability scheme to reduce test application time in full scan

Full scan is a widely accepted design for testability technique for sequential circuits. However, the test application time required by full scan could be high because of the necessity to scan in and scan out test vectors. In this paper, a hybrid scheme is presented that aims to reduce test application time in circuits with full scan. The proposed scheme exploits the inherent sequential nature of the circuit in conjunction with the additional controllability and observability available through full scan. Also, it is shown that the hybrid scheme has an additional advantage of being suited for testing transition faults.<<ETX>>