A compressive-sensing based testing vehicle for 3D TSV pre-bond and post-bond testing data

Online testing vehicle is required for 3D TSV pre-bond and post-bond testing due to high probability of TSV failures. It has become a challenge to deal with large sets of generated testing data with limited probing when transmitting the data out. In this paper, a lossless compressive-sensing based testing vehicle is developed for online testing of TSVs. By exploring sparsity of the testing data under constraint of failure bound of TSV, sparse-representation based encoding can be deployed by XOR and AND network on chip to deal with large volume of testing data. Experimental results (with benchmarks) have shown that 89.70% pre-bond data compression rate can be achieved under 0.5% probability of failures; and 88.18% post-bond data compression rate can be achieved with 5% probability of failures.