Digital testing and reliability education (DTRE) computer tool

Author

Kubatova, Hana ; Jelinek, Radek

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Czech Tech. Univ., Praha, Czech Republic

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

1227

Abstract

This paper describes our computer tool for the educational course "Diagnostics and Reliability". It consists of three programs and a web presentation. It serves for education, practical lessons and exercises but not for replacing it. The web presentation contains theoretical parts of each topic, user manuals, examples and programs for experiments to perform. The simple JeL language based on Boolean equations can describe the structure of a tested circuit. The TEST program generates the complete structural detection test set. The pseudo-random test can be generated by the HILDO program and next the test fault coverage can be studied and a fault dictionary can be created. The RELIABILITY program computes basic reliability characteristics from a graphical block model. The brief description of the JeL language, these three programs and the structure of our Digital Testing and Reliability Education (DTRE) tool are presented.

Keywords

circuit reliability; circuit testing; computer aided instruction; digital circuits; educational courses; electronic engineering computing; electronic engineering education; fault diagnosis; logic testing; Boolean equations; DTRE computer tool; HILDO program; JeL language; RELIABILITY program; TEST program; Web presentation; diagnostics/reliability course; digital testing education; engineering education; fault dictionary creation; graphical block model; pseudo-random test generation; reliability characteristics; reliability education; structural detection test set; test fault coverage; Circuit faults; Circuit testing; Computer science; Computer science education; Design for testability; Educational programs; Equations; Natural languages; Reliability engineering; Test pattern generators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2002. 9th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7596-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2002.1046475

Filename

1046475