• DocumentCode
    1146658
  • Title

    Test Generation Algorithms for Computer Hardware Description Languages

  • Author

    Levendel, Ytzhak H. ; Menon, Premachandran R.

  • Author_Institution
    Bell Laboratories
  • Issue
    7
  • fYear
    1982
  • fDate
    7/1/1982 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    577
  • Lastpage
    588
  • Abstract
    This paper proposes an extension of the D-algorithm to functions described in computer hardware description languages. The proposed extension is applicable to both procedural and nonprocedural languages. Methods of D-propagation through the basic constructs of these languages and test generation for circuits containing functions described in CHDL´s are discussed. The fault modes considered are function variables stuck at 0 or 1, control faults, and function faults with user-specified faulty behaviors.
  • Keywords
    D-algorithm; functional blocks; nonprocedural CHDL; procedural CHDL; test generation; Circuit faults; Circuit simulation; Circuit testing; Combinational circuits; Computational modeling; Equations; Flip-flops; Hardware design languages; Registers; Sequential analysis; D-algorithm; functional blocks; nonprocedural CHDL; procedural CHDL; test generation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computers, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9340
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TC.1982.1676054
  • Filename
    1676054