Cost Optimal Design of Nonlinear CA based PRPG for Test Applications

This paper reports a scheme for cost optimal design of PRPG, built around nonlinear cellular automata (CM). The characterization of 3-neighborhood CA rules provides the foundation of designing the n-bit PRPG in linear time. The GA (genetic algorithm) framework proposed to evolve the CA results in a minimal cost PRPG structure, in terms of area overhead and delay