VLSI Circuit Test Vector Compression Technique
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
A new test vector compression method for VLSI circuit testing is presented in this paper. The technique is essentially software-based, where a program is loaded into the on-chip processor memory along with the compressed test data sets. To reduce the on-chip storage area and testing time, the large volume of test data is first compressed before downloading into the on-chip processor. The proposed method utilizes a set of adaptive coding techniques for achieving lossless compression. The compression program need not be loaded into the embedded processor, as only the decompression of the test data is is necessary for application by the automatic test equipment (ATE). The technique requires minimal hardware overhead, while the on-chip processor core can be reused for normal operation after testing. The feasibility of the developed approach has been demonstrated through extensive simulation experiments on ISCAS 85 and ISCAS 89 benchmark circuits.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it