COMBINATIONAL LOGIC SYNTHESIS FOR DIVERSITY IN DUPLEX SYSTEMS

  • Authors:
  • Subhasish Mitra;Edward J. McCluskey

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ITC '00 Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Test Conference
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We describe logic synthesis techniques for designingdiverse implementations of combinational logic circuits inorder to maximize the data integrity of diverse duplexsystems in the presence of common-mode failures. Dataintegrity means that the system either produces correctoutputs or indicates errors when incorrect outputs areproduced. Design diversity has long been used to increasethe data integrity of duplex systems against common-modefailures. The conventional notion of diversity is qualitativeand relies on "independent" generation of "different"implementations. In a recent paper, we presented a metricto quantify diversity among several designs. Our synthesistechniques described in this paper use the diversity metricas a cost function and maximize diversity while reducingthe area overhead of the resulting diverse duplex system.