Dynamic fault diagnosis on reconfigurable hardware

In this paper, we introduce a new approach for locating and diagnosing faults in combinational circuits. The approach is based on automatically designing a circuit which implements a closest-match fault location algorithm specialized for the combinational circuit under diagnosis (CUD). This approach eliminates the need for large storage required by a software based fault diagnosis. In this paper, we show the approach´s feasibility in terms of hardware resources, speed, and how it compares with software based techniques