IEEE - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

Computer Society
Test Technology Technical Council

A professional organization sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society.

TTTC's goals:
-to contribute to its members' professional development and
advancement;
- to help them solve engineering problems in electronic test;
-to help advance the state-of-the-art.

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 IEEE Computer Society
Test Technology Technical Council

TTTC's current scope includes, but not limited to:

-The testing of analog and digital semiconductor integrated

circuits at the wafer, component, MCM, subassembly, circuit
board and system levels;
-Design and use of automatic test equipment;
-Testability methods;
-Built-in self-test;
-Self-repair methodologies;
-Automatic test-program generation;
-On-line testing;
-The testing of optical devices;
-Use of test methodologies in quality management.
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 IEEE Computer Society
Test Technology Technical Council

TTTC Technical Activities TTTC Operating Committees

A. Defect Tolerance I. Memory Test R. Awards
B. Economics of Test J. Mixed-Signal TestingS. Asian Activities
C. Test Education K. On-Line Testing T. European Activities*
D. Embedded-Core Test L. Optical Test U. History (of TTTC)
E. High-Level Design & M. Software Test V. Marketing
Test N. Systems Test W. Membership
F. IDDQ Testing O. Test Synthesis X. Newsletter
G. Manufacturing Test P. Verification and Test Y. Standards Activities
H. MCM Testing Z. Tutorials

* L. Miclea – ETTTC contact person for Romania

Homepage: http://computer.org/tttc/

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 Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Faculty of Automation and Computer Engineering
Department of Automation

Dependable Systems Group

http://users.utcluj.ro/~miclea {Liviu.Miclea, Szilard.Enyedi, Iulia.Stefan,
Ovidiu.Stan, Madalin.Neagu, Dan.Gota} @aut.utcluj.ro

• Education and research in the fields of:

– Reliability. Testing. DfT. Testing of heterogeneous distributed systems.
Agent-based testing. Web-based applications.
• People: assoc. prof. Liviu Miclea, PhD; assoc. prof. Enyedi
Szilárd, PhD; assit.prof. Ovidiu Stan, doctoral and masters
students;
• Cooperation with: Politecnico di Torino, Italy (prof. Paolo
Prinetto); University of Piraeus, Greece (prof. Dimitris
Gizopoulos); Univ. Auburn, USA (prof. Adit Singh), …
• Representative works:
– On-Line BIST for Distributed Systems;
– Using BIST to Increase Wireless Distributed Systems’ Security;
– Agents and BIST/BISR in Distributed Systems;
– Agent Based DBIST / DBISR and its Web / Wireless Management.
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On-Line BIST for Distributed Systems
• This work involves a set of experiments, using different programming
languages (Java and Visual Basic) and CORBA as data exchange
technique, aiming at overcoming the problems that arise during the on-line
testing of distributed systems.
• The main concern of the experiments being the distributed character of the
testing technique, the focus is on the communication modules.
• The DBIST structure having a slave and a master part is implemented in
Java, using JDK on Windows NT.
• The slave manages the local BIST module according to the commands
received from the master.
• The master has a graphical user interface through which the user
coordinates the distributed testing process for multiple slaves and
centralizes the test results.
• Experimental results gathered on distributed systems demonstrate the
effectiveness and the usability of the developed tools.

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 Communication between the
modules

Name server
CORBA CORBA

CORBA
BistMaster BistSlave
Function call

Socket
BistServant BIST

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BistMaster and the BIST module

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 Using BIST to Increase Wireless
Distributed Systems’ Security
• Enhancing the functional security of a distributed
wireless system with built-in self-test capabilities
(DBIST).
• Increasing the availability of a wireless distributed
system using test techniques.
• Planning a low-cost solution for the above, using a
combination of Web technologies, PHP scripting and
WAP mobile data access.
• Designing a fast development cycle, using existing
technologies.
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 Proposed DBIST Structure
Central (master) device Central (master) test module

Controller Controller

BIST BIST

Local (slave) device 1 Local (slave) device 2

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 DBIST through WAP

Micro WAP
browser gateway

Mobile device Service provider

PHP TCP/IP
module

Web server
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Agents and BIST/BISR in Distributed Systems

• To reduce the complexity in testing large,

heterogeneous computer-based distributed
systems
• To enable “Plug and Play” testing of new
devices added to the system
• To present the real challenges and potential
benefits of an agent-based approach

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Proposed Agent-Controlled DBIST Structure
Utility agents

Nameserver Visualizer Facilitator

agent agent agent

Module 1 Module n

Field Agent Field Agent

Controller Controller

BIST BIST

Hardware Hardware

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2018 IEEE-TTTC International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics
AQTR 2018
24-26 May, 2018, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
http://aqtr.ro aqtr@conference.utcluj.ro

Topics of interest include the following:

Control systems: Modeling and simulation, Control Methods, Real-Time Systems, Decision support
systems, Multi-agent systems, Embedded systems. Robotics (autonomous mobile robots, parallel
structures, machine vision, applications).
Testing: ATE, analog and digital testing, automatic test generation, design for testability, Built-In Self-
Test/Repair, reliability, software testing, system testing, service testing.
Networking and services quality and security: network infrastructure, home networking, convergence
of broadcasting, seamless service provisioning, mobility, network sensors.
Applications: eHealth (personalized monitoring, chronic disease management, virtual models,
biomechanics, preventive monitoring, systems for multi-screening), image processing, eLearning,
eCitizen, applied informatics, technical applications, power electronics, manufacturing and engineering,
environment and infrastructure protection.
Student forum (student presentations in the above topics).

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