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❗ Important Note

Overview

This project contains a test chip for several OpenRAM memory configurations. The configurations have varying levels of verification. In particular, it has these sizes:

• sky130_sram_1kbyte_1rw1r_8x1024_8 SRAM0
• sky130_sram_1kbyte_1rw1r_32x256_8 SRAM1
• sram_2kbyte_32b_2bank SRAM2 (2 x sky130_sram_1kbyte_1rw1r_32x256_8)
• sky130_sram_2kbyte_1rw1r_32x512_8 SRAM3
• sky130_sram_4kbyte_1rw1r_32x1024_8 SRAM4
• sky130_sram_2kbyte_1rw1r_32x512_8 SRAM5
• sky130_sram_4kbyte_1rw1r_32x1024_8 SRAM6
• sky130_sram_1kbyte_1rw_32x256_8 SRAM8
• sky130_sram_2kbyte_1rw_32x512_8 SRAM9
• sky130_sram_2kbyte_1rw_32x512_8 SRAM10

Test Modes

There are three test modes available. Each one inputs a packet that configures the read and write operations of a particular SRAM. The GPIO pin io_in[14] determines whether to use Wishbone mode (1) or GPIO/LA mode (0). Furthermore, io_in[23] and io_in[16] determines the clock the design runs on.

{io_in[23], io_in[16]}
2'b00 : clock is provided through LA (la test mode)
2'b01 : clock is provided through io_in[17] (gpio test mode)
2'b10 : clock is provided through wb_clk_i (wishbone test mode)

Test Packet

The test packet is a 112-bit value that has the follow signals and bit size:

• chip_select (4)
• addr0 (16)
• din0 (32)
• csb0 (1)
• web0 (1)
• wmask0 (1)
• addr1 (16)
• din1 (32)
• csb1 (1)
• web1 (1)
• wmask1 (4)

During a read operation, the din bits are replaced with the data output bits so that they can be verified.

Note: The 64-bit memory leaves the middle 32-bits as a value of 0 and instead reads/writes the upper and lower 16-bits to reduce the number of packet bits.

GPIO Mode

In GPIO mode, the test packet is scanned in/out with the GPIO pins in 112 cycles. The GPIO pins used are as follows:

• Test mode select: in_select io_in[14] = 0 // selects the testing mode to be gpio
• Clock select: clk_select {io_in[23], io[16]} = 2'b01 // makes sure the clk goes through the io_in[17]
• Scan reset: resetn: io_in[15]
• Scan clock: gpio_clk io_in[17]
• Scan enable: gpio_scan io_in[19]
• Load SRAM result into register: gpio_sram_load io_in[20]
• CSB for all SRAM: global_csb io_in[21]
• Scan input: gpio_in io_in[22]
• Scan output: gpio_out io_out[22]

LA Mode

In LA mode, the test packet is directly written from the output of the 128-bit LA.

• Test mode select: in_select io_in[14] = 0 // selects the testing mode to be gpio
• Clock select: clk_select {io_in[23], io[16]} = 2'b00 // makes sure the clk goes through the la_data_in[127]
• Control register clock: la_clk la_data_in[127]
• Load control register: la_in_load la_data_in[125]
• Load SRAM result into register: la_sram_load la_data_in[124]
• CSB for all SRAM: la_global_cs la_data_in[123]

Wishbone Mode (WIP)

The wishbone mode currently tests the single port memories. The wishbone interface is used to provide data packet to the memories based on the address map of each memory.

• Test mode select: in_select io_in[14] = 1 // selects the testing mode to be wishbone
• Clock select: clk_select {io_in[23], io[16]} = 2'b00 // makes sure the clk goes through the wb_clk_i
• CSB for all SRAM: based on the wbs_cyc_i, wbs_stb_i and wbs_adr_i.
• Data for all SRAM: wbs_dat_i
• Write enable for all SRAM: wbs_we_i

Authors

Muhammad Hadir Khan mkhan33@ucsc.edu Jesse Cirimeli-Low jcirimel@ucsc.edu Amogh Lonkar alonkar@ucsc.edu Bugra Onal bonal@ucsc.edu Samuel Crow sacrow@ucsc.edu Matthew Guthaus mrg@ucsc.edu