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STUDY ON BUILT-IN-SELF-TEST (BIST) ENABLED UART USING

VERILOG
LATHA DHULIPALLA YENDLURI KONDAIAH
M.Tech (VLSI) Department of ECE Associate professor Department of ECE
Priyadarshini Institute of Technology and Priyadarshini Institute of Technology and
Management. Management
Pulladigunta,Guntur, A.P. Pulladigunta, Guntur, A.P.

ABSTRACT integrated circuits in high-performance

computing, telecommunications, and
Asynchronous serial communication is typically
consumer Electronics has been rising
implemented by Universal Asynchronous Receiver
steadily, and at a very fast pace. Typically,
Transmitter (UART), mostly used for low cost, low
the required computational power (or, in
speed, short distance information switch between
processor and peripherals. UART allows full duplex
other words, the intelligence) of these
serial message link, and is used in data
applications is the driving force for the fast
communication and control system. There is a need development of this field. Gives an over
for realizing the UART function in a single or a very view of the prominent trends in information
few chips. Further, design systems without full technologies over the next few decades. The
testability are open to the increased possibility of current leading-edge technologies (such as
product failures and missed market opportunities. low bit-rate video and cellular
Also, it is necessary to ensure the data transfer is communications) already provide the end-
error proof. This pro ject targets the introduction of users a certain amount of processing power
Built-in self test (BIST) and Status register to UART. and portability. This trend is expected to
The basic idea is to reduce the switching activity continue, with very important implications
among the test patterns at the most. In this approach, on VLSI and systems design. One of the
the single input change patterns generated by a most important characteristics of
counter and a gray code generator are Exclusive- information services is their increasing need
ORed with the seed generated by the low power for very high processing power and
linear feedback shift register [LP-LFSR]. The 8-bit bandwidth (in order to handle real-time
UART with status register and BIST module is coded video, for example). The other important
in Verilog HDL and synthesized and simulated using characteristic is that the information services
Xilinx XST and ISim version 14.4 and realized on tend to become more and more personalized
FPGA.
(as opposed to collective services such as
Keywords: - BIST Architecture, UART Tx, broadcasting), which means that the devices
UART Rx, LFSR, VLSI testing. must be more intelligent to answer
individual demands, and at the same time
I. INTRODUCTION: they must be portable to allow more
flexibility/mobility.
The electronics industry has achieved a Very- large-scale integration (VLSI) is the
phenomenal growth over the last two process of creating integrated circuits by
Decades, mainly due to the rapid advances
combining thousands of transistor-based
in integration technologies, large-scale
systems design - in short, due to the advent circuits into a single chip. VLSI began in the
of VLSI. The number of applications of 1970s when complex semiconductor and

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communication technologies were being data’s. The BIST controller can be easily
developed. The microprocessor is a VLSI controlled as a device details for the novel
device. The term is no longer as common as architecture for the further details. The test
it once was, as chips have increased in response analysis could be considered for
complexity into the hundreds of millions of the UART transmitting and the receiving
transistors. data’s form the each bits. The test results
can be detecting the fault address and then it
II. BIST ARCHITECTURE consumes all the details as a database and
BIST architecture consists of a take a look at identifies the fault address and shows the
Pattern Generator (TPG), the circuit to be details. This could be as a process of
tested (CUT), some way to investigate the simulation level waveform.
results (TRA), and some way to compress III. UART ARCHITECTURE
those results (BCU) and also LFSR for
simplicity and handling. CUT could be A universal asynchronous
designed as memory device architecture for receiver/transmitter, abbreviated UART , is
testing the faults. The fault address can be a computer hardware device that translates
data between characters (usually bytes) in a
detected and it could compare to the
computer and an asynchronous serial
comparator for the analysis of the all
communication format that encapsulates
relevant circuits. those characters between start bits and stop
bits.
The UART architecture contains the
transmitter and the receiver. This could be
contain and loads the buffer data for all the
read and write operation. The data transfers
through this serial communication to get the
proper information about the outputs.

Figure 1: Block diagram of BIST

architecture

The LFSR generates the feedback values

from the each and every flip- flop for the
new CUT architecture. The level of this
recognition could be difficult to identify the Figure 2: Block diagram of UART
fault and it could be having time consuming Architecture
process. The process can be adoptable for
the all authorized and the unauthorized UART COMMUNICATION

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In UART communication, two UARTs simulation and the waveform could be

communicate directly with each other. The verified by using the MODELSIM.
transmitting UART converts parallel data
from a controlling device like a CPU into
serial form, transmits it in serial to the
receiving UART, which then converts the
serial data back into parallel data for the
receiving device. Only two wires are needed
to transmit data between two UARTs. Data
flows from the Tx pin of the transmitting
UART to the Rx pin of the receiving UART

Figure 4: Architecture of UART

Figure 3: UART communiatiion

The universal asynchronous

receiver/transmitter (UART) takes bytes of
data and transmits the individual bits in a
sequential fashion. At the destination, a
second UART re-assembles the bits into
complete bytes. Each UART contains a shift
register, which is the fundamental method of
conversion between serial and parallel
forms. Serial transmission of digital
information (bits) through a single wire or Figure 5: Waveform of UART architecture
other medium is less costly than parallel
transmission through multiple wires.

IV. SIMULATION RESULTS

The UART BIST architecture simulation

can be done through the Xilinx ISE using
VERILOG HDL. The data address bit
verification can also to be done through this

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V.CONCLUSION

This papers presents the UART based BIST

Architecture using VERILOG HDL. Most of
the researchers have been used to implement
this testing algorithm in VERILOG for
stable, compact and reliable transmission.
The structural details have been recognized
and it can be integrated into the chip could
be easier. The UART transmission could be
relatively used in all the devices for the
reliable transmission of data’s from the
structure where it could be converter and
Figure5: Architecture of BIST tested as a bit files generation. This design
function can be adopted as a technical
preserving data’s for communication. The
BIST controller as a device uses as an
efficient bit generation for the chip
implementation.

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