Cofs { a Cell Oriented Fault Simulator
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Currently, in most fault simulators physical defects have to be modeled as stuck-at faults in networks of primitive gates such as AND, NAND, etc. On the other hand, the inadequacy of the stuck-at fault model for today's technologies has been pointed out by many authors. In this paper, a compiler driven fault simulator is presented which handles arbitrary combinational faults. The set of basic cells and their fault models are not coded into the algorithm but can be speciied by the user in a library. It is shown that this increased exibility, which is obtained by cell instead of line oriented fault injection, does not degrade the performance of the simulator but, in contrast, results in a considerable speed-up (up to factor 40).
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