Title
Diagnostic simulation of sequential circuits using fault sampling
Abstract
This paper describes a technique to accelerate diagnostic fault simulation of sequential circuits using fault sampling. Diagnostic fault simulation involves computing the indistinguishability relationship between all pairs of modeled faults. The input space is the set of all pairs of modeled faults, thus making the simulation computationally intensive. The diagnostic simulation process is accelerated by considering a sub-space of the input space that is obtained using fault sampling. Results on performance speedup and diagnostic resolution loss are provided for the ISCAS 89 benchmark circuits.
Year
DOI
Venue
1998
10.1109/ICVD.1998.646652
VLSI Design
Keywords
Field
DocType
fault diagnosis,logic testing,sequential circuits,diagnostic fault simulation,fault sampling,indistinguishability relationship,sequential circuit
Stuck-at fault,Sequential logic,Logic testing,Computer science,Systems analysis,Electronic engineering,Real-time computing,Sampling (statistics),Network analysis,Electronic circuit,Speedup
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1063-9667
0-8186-8224-8
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Srikanth Venkataraman157248.05
W. K. Fuchs246445.59
J. H. Patel34577527.59