Elec 7250 Sequential Parallel Fault Simulator
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Fault simulators are used to determine which faults are detected by a test sequence. Designing fault simulators for sequential circuits is much more complicated than for combinational circuits because of the feedback and timing constraints. This report presents an overview of the sequential fault simulators and an at length analysis of two different asynchronous sequential parallel fault simulator models-PROOFS and PARIS which have been further modified to get better performance in the form of HOPE and VISION respectively. The comparison of performances on benchmark circuits shows that with a few exceptions, HOPE proves to be faster than the rest. This paper concentrates on synchronous sequential fault simulators alone.
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