Computer-Aided Design and Test Research Group (CADT)

Welcome to the Computer-Aided Design and Test Research Group (CADT) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McMaster University. The main focus of our current research is on design for test (DFT) infrastructure for reliable and at-speed testing, embedded deterministic test, and register transfer level (RTL) test planning.

Current group members: Nicola Nicolici, Henry Ko, Adam Kinsman, David Leung, Ehab Anis, Kaveh Elizeh and Roomi Sahi.

Thesis supervised or co-supervised by Nicola: 

Theo Gonciari (Ph.D. 2003) - Low-cost test for core-based system-on-a-chip
         (co-supervised with Professor Bashir Al-Hashimi at University of Southampton)

Paul Rosinger (Ph.D. 2003) - Power-conscious scan-based test of digital VLSI circuits
        (co-supervised with Professor Bashir Al-Hashimi at University of Southampton)

Bai Hong Fang (M.A.Sc. 2003) - Embedded memory BIST for systems-on-a-chip

Ho Fai Ko (M.A.Sc. 2004) - Functional scan design at RTL

David Lemstra (M.A.Sc. 2005) – A high level synthesis approach for reduced interconnects and fault tolerance

Adam Kinsman (M.A.Sc. 2005) – Embedded deterministic test for systems-on-a-chip

Qiang Xu (Ph.D. 2005) – Solutions for emerging problems in modular system-on-a-chip testing

David Leung (M.A.Sc. 2007) – SAT-based ATPG for digital integrated circuits based on multiple observations

Books: N. Nicolici and B.M. Al-Hashimi, Power-constrained testing of VLSI circuits, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Frontiers in Electronic Testing Series), February 2003, ISBN 1-4020-7235-X.

Papers: IET/IEEE conference and journal papers can be downloaded from IEEEXplore.

Releases:

Test scheduling for core-based SOCs - a prototype tool, developed by Qiang Xu as part of his doctoral research. A modified version of the ITC'02 benchmarks (including random functional interconnect), is also available here.

Source Verilog files for MP3 audio and MPEG2 audio/video decoding are available here.

Last changed on  August 21, 2008  by    Nicola Nicola's home Electrical and Computer Engineering McMaster University