VHDL Testability Analysis Based on Fault Clustering and Implicit Fault Injection
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چکیده
Testability analysis of VHDL sequential models is the main topic of this paper. We investigate the possibility to obtain information about the testability of a sequential VHDL description before its actual synthesis. The analysis is based on an implicit fault model that injects faults into a BDD based description extracted from the VHDL representation. Such an injection is related to the original VHDL representation thus allowing the identiication of potential testability problems before RTL and logic synthesis. Fault injection is performed eeciently by exploiting the concept of fault clustering, that is, the possibility of grouping faults and analyzing them concurrently. The proposed methodology is applied to benchmarks for eeciency evaluation and to a real VHDL description.
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