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Low-power design becomes a challenge for test. In this paper, we propose a novel low-power scan architecture-PowerCut to minimize power consumption during scan test, which is based on a scan chain modification technique. On one hand, a blocking logic is inserted into the scan chain to reduce the dynamic power and a controlling unit is also inserted to decrease the leakage power during the shift cycle...