Title :
A totally self-checking checker for Borden´s code
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA
fDate :
7/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
It is well known that a large number of errors in VLSI circuits are unidirectional in nature. J.M. Borden (Inf. Control, vol.53, p.66-73, April 1982) has studied a code for detecting only t, not all, unidirectional errors. For a code to be utilized in a self-checking system, a self-checking checker must exist for it. The totally self-checking (TSC) checker is one such checker. Many designs for TSC checkers exist for m-out-of-n codes. However, no work has been reported on the design of a TSC checker for Borden´s code. The author presents such a design. They believe that this design may lead to greater applicability of Borden´s code to self-checking systems
Keywords :
VLSI; error detection codes; integrated circuit testing; logic testing; Borden´s code; VLSI circuits; error detection code; logic testing; totally self-checking checker; unidirectional errors; Circuit faults; Computer errors; Computerized monitoring; Electrical fault detection; Encoding; Error correction codes; Fault detection; Programmable logic arrays; Redundancy; Very large scale integration;
Journal_Title :
Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on
