Test-equivalent faults are commonly used in test generation and fault simulation to reduce the number of explicitly addressed faults. At the gate level, practical equivalence rules are confined to faults on the input and output terminals of Boolean gates and those related to fanout-free wires.This paper shows that under some conditions equivalence may also be stated between faults on a fanout stem and its branches. A modification of the standard fault folding algorithm is proposed, which leads to reduce the number of target faults and occasionally identify logic redundancies.Application to real designs shows the added computational complexity is negligible, while for some classes of CMOS circuits hard-to-simulate faults are eliminated and hence their fault simulation time is drastically reduced.
On the equivalence of fanout-point faults / Lioy, Antonio. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERS. - ISSN 0018-9340. - STAMPA. - 42:3(1993), pp. 268-271. [10.1109/12.210169]
On the equivalence of fanout-point faults
Lioy Antonio
1993
Abstract
Test-equivalent faults are commonly used in test generation and fault simulation to reduce the number of explicitly addressed faults. At the gate level, practical equivalence rules are confined to faults on the input and output terminals of Boolean gates and those related to fanout-free wires.This paper shows that under some conditions equivalence may also be stated between faults on a fanout stem and its branches. A modification of the standard fault folding algorithm is proposed, which leads to reduce the number of target faults and occasionally identify logic redundancies.Application to real designs shows the added computational complexity is negligible, while for some classes of CMOS circuits hard-to-simulate faults are eliminated and hence their fault simulation time is drastically reduced.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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