A proposed hardware fault simulation engine

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Cock;Andy Carpenter

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Manchester;University of Manchester

  • Venue:
  • EURO-DAC '91 Proceedings of the conference on European design automation
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

Fault simulation is an essential part of the design cycle and for large circuits it can be very time consuming. This paper examines the possibility of hardware acceleration of this process, especially that of sequential circuits. In order to achieve this, the architecture of a pipelined hardware simulation accelerator, the MANchester Simulation Engine (MANSE), is examined. Finally the modifications necessary to make MANSE capable of fault simulation are considered.