Title :
On distributed fault simulation
Author :
Markas, Tassos ; Royals, Mark ; Kanopoulos, Nick
Author_Institution :
Center for Digital Syst. Res., Triangle Inst., Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Abstract :
The authors examine the computational aspects of fault simulation of digital circuits and address issues related to the efficient partitioning of a fault simulation task to a number of subtasks assignable for execution to the nodes of a distributed system. They review the basic concepts involved in the operation of fault simulation. They describe the implementation of a distributed fault simulation facility, called DFSim, using a heterogeneous local area network consisting of a number of workstations with different computing resources and different versions of Unix operating systems.<>
Keywords :
circuit analysis computing; distributed processing; fault location; logic CAD; DFSim; Unix operating systems; computational aspects; computing resources; digital circuits; distributed fault simulation; distributed system; heterogeneous local area network; nodes; partitioning; subtasks; workstations; Circuit faults; Circuit simulation; Circuit testing; Computational modeling; Digital circuits; Distributed computing; Electrical fault detection; Fault detection; Local area networks; Parallel processing;
