Date of Award

4-1991

Degree Name

Master of Science

Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

First Advisor

Dr. E. Abuelyaman

Second Advisor

Dr. H. Mousavinezhad

Third Advisor

Dr. D. Johnson

Access Setting

Masters Thesis-Open Access

Abstract

The most commonly used model for fault analysis is called the "Stuck-At" model. With this model, a faulty gate input and/or output is modeled as Stuck-at-0 (s--a-0) or Stuck-at-1 (s-a-1). After a certain number of test vectors are applied to a network, the percentage fault coverage is computed. This computed value relates to the percentage of stuck-at faults detectable at the output. Various studies have been made to enhance the performance of fault simulators. In this paper, a modified parallel simulator MODPAR for combinational circuits is presented. A comparison of simulation results from MODPAR is made with that of SCIRTSS (Hill & Huey, 1977), which employs a parallel simulation algorithm. Simulation data indicate that MODPAR enjoys simulation time advantage.

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