Opens in different BiCMOS structures are analyzed here. It is shown that some opens cannot be detected by stuck-fault tests, since some transistors in BiCMOS gates do not affect the logical function of the gate. It is...
详细信息
Opens in different BiCMOS structures are analyzed here. It is shown that some opens cannot be detected by stuck-fault tests, since some transistors in BiCMOS gates do not affect the logical function of the gate. It is also shown that, in BiCMOS circuits, an open defect in a particular transistor can cause an acceleration in the wearout of another non-defective transistor.< >
Model-based evaluation of reliable distributed and parallel systems is difficult due to the complexity of these systems and the nature of the dependability measures of interest. The complexity creates problems for ana...
详细信息
Model-based evaluation of reliable distributed and parallel systems is difficult due to the complexity of these systems and the nature of the dependability measures of interest. The complexity creates problems for analytical model solution techniques, and the fact that reliability and availability measures are based on rare events makes traditional simulation methods inefficient. Importance sampling is a well-known technique for improving the efficiency of rare event simulations. However, finding an importance sampling strategy that works well in general is a difficult problem. The best strategy for importance sampling depends on the characteristics of the system and the dependability measure of interest. This fact motivated the development of an environment for importance sampling that would support the wide variety of model characteristics and interesting measures. The environment is based on stochastic activity networks, and importance sampling strategies are specified using the new concept of the importance sampling governor. The governor supports dynamic importance sampling strategies by allowing the stochastic elements of the model to be redefined based on the evolution of the simulation. The utility of the new environment is demonstrated by evaluating the unreliability of a highly dependable fault-tolerant unit used in the well-known MARS architecture. The model is non-Markovian, with Weibull distributed failure times and uniformly distributed repair times.< >
The goal of IC production test is to avoid selling bad parts. The goal of fault grading is to assure that the test is so thorough that only an acceptably small fraction of shipped parts are bad. Fault grading is almos...
详细信息
The goal of IC production test is to avoid selling bad parts. The goal of fault grading is to assure that the test is so thorough that only an acceptably small fraction of shipped parts are bad. Fault grading is almost always based on a single-stuck fault, ssf, model.< >
We have developed a two-level case-based reasoning architecture for predicting protein secondary structure. The central idea is to break the problem into two levels: first, reasoning at the object (protein) level, and...
详细信息
The authors describe a new portable algorithm for parallel circuit extraction. The algorithm is built as part of the ongoing ProperCAD project: a portable object-oriented parallel environment for CAD applications that...
详细信息
The authors describe a new portable algorithm for parallel circuit extraction. The algorithm is built as part of the ongoing ProperCAD project: a portable object-oriented parallel environment for CAD applications that is built on top of the CHARM system. The algorithm, unlike prior approaches like PACE is asynchronous and is based on a coarse-grained dataflow execution model. Performance of circuit extraction is presented on four parallel machines: an Encore Multimax, a Sequent Symmetry, a NCUBE 2 hypercube, and a network of Sun Sparc workstations. The extractor runs unchanged on all these machines.< >
The authors present an application of formal development methodology to an actual real-time embedded system. The formal methods used are based on Modechart a graphical state specification language for real-time system...
详细信息
The authors present an application of formal development methodology to an actual real-time embedded system. The formal methods used are based on Modechart a graphical state specification language for real-time systems, whose formal semantic definition provides the basis for analysis. The specifications may be automatically simulated, or verified with respect to user-provided safety, liveness, and timing assertions. The application is of non-toy size and functionality, and features many state-of-the-practice design properties, such as parallel priority-based synchronizing processes with preemption.< >
It is shown that the aliasing probability is bounded above by (1 + epsilon)/L almost-equal-to 1/L (epsilon small for large L) for test lengths L less than the period, L(c), of the signature polynomial;for test lengths...
详细信息
It is shown that the aliasing probability is bounded above by (1 + epsilon)/L almost-equal-to 1/L (epsilon small for large L) for test lengths L less than the period, L(c), of the signature polynomial;for test lengths L that are multiples of L(c), the aliasing probability is bounded above by 1;and, for test lengths L greater than L(c) and not a multiple of L(c), the aliasing probability is bounded above by 2/(L(c) + 1). These simple bounds avoid any exponential complexity associated with the exact computation of the aliasing probability. Simple bounds also apply to signature analysis based on any linear finite state machine (including linear cellular automaton). From these simple bounds it follows that the aliasing probability in a signature analysis design using beta-intermediate signatures is bounded by ((1 + epsilon)(beta)beta(beta))/L(beta), for beta < L and L/beta < L(c). By using intermediate signatures the aliasing probability can be substantially reduced.
作者:
L. AvraCenter for Reliable Computing
Computer Systems Laboratory Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Stanford Stanford CA USA
The author introduces a new way to organize memory elements into scan chains for built-in self-testable data path logic. The goal of the procedure is to minimize the hardware overhead and performance impact associated...
详细信息
The author introduces a new way to organize memory elements into scan chains for built-in self-testable data path logic. The goal of the procedure is to minimize the hardware overhead and performance impact associated with pseudo-random built-in self-test (PR-BIST) techniques by organizing the memory elements such that some of the logic required for BIST and scan operations is also used during normal operation. The author identifies function types that are well suited for implementation with the register designs required for BIST and shows that these function types are found in data path designs. Functional use is made of the BIST logic by organizing the memory elements in the design into orthogonal scan chains. A data path design example is used to compare an implementation using a normal BIST configuration to one using the orthogonal configuration.< >
An algorithm based on the transduction method and implemented in the ProperCAD environment is described. The parallel ProperSYN algorithm attempts to make the execution time manageably small. The algorithm uses an asy...
详细信息
An algorithm based on the transduction method and implemented in the ProperCAD environment is described. The parallel ProperSYN algorithm attempts to make the execution time manageably small. The algorithm uses an asynchronous message driven computing model with no synchronizing barriers, and hence it is scalable to a larger number of processors. Also, the algorithm is portable across a wide variety parallel machines. Experimental results on various parallel machines are presented. The algorithm is built around a well-defined sequential algorithm interface such that there can be benefits from future expansion of the sequential algorithm.< >
We analyze the temperature dependence and material properties of InGaAsP/lnP quarter wave mirrors used in optoelectronic devices such as surface emitting lasers and resonant cavity photodetectors. We measure the varia...
详细信息
暂无评论