• DocumentCode
    1117726
  • Title

    Polynomially Complete Fault Detection Problems

  • Author

    Ibarra, Oscar H. ; Sahni, Sartaj K.

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1975
  • fDate
    3/1/1975 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    242
  • Lastpage
    249
  • Abstract
    We look at several variations of the single fault detection problem for combinational logic circuits and show that deciding whether single faults are detectable by input-output (I/O) experiments is polynomially complete, i.e., there is a polynomial time algorithm to decide if these single faults are detectable if and only if there is a polynomial time algorithm for problems such as the traveling salesman problem, knapsack problem, etc.
  • Keywords
    Deterministic and nondeterministic computations, fault detection, irredundant circuit, polynomially complete, polynomial time algorithm, tautology problem, traveling salesman problem, Turing machines (TM´s).; Boolean functions; Circuit faults; Circuit testing; Combinational circuits; Electrical fault detection; Fault detection; Logic testing; Polynomials; Traveling salesman problems; Turing machines; Deterministic and nondeterministic computations, fault detection, irredundant circuit, polynomially complete, polynomial time algorithm, tautology problem, traveling salesman problem, Turing machines (TM´s).;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computers, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9340
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/T-C.1975.224205
  • Filename
    1672798