Fault simulation in a distributed environment

  • Authors:
  • Patrick A. Duba;Rabindra K. Roy;Jacob A. Abraham;William A. Rogers

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Systems Group, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL;Computer Systems Group, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL;Computer Systems Group, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL;Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

  • Venue:
  • DAC '88 Proceedings of the 25th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

Fault simulation of VLSI circuits takes considerable computing resources and there have been significant efforts to speed up the fault simulation process. This paper describes a distributed fault simulator implemented on a loosely-coupled network of general purpose computers. The techniques used result in a close to linear speedup and can be used effectively in most industrial VLSI CAD environments.