Fault Propagation Characteristics and Reliability Analysis of Large-Scale Circuit

This paper deals with the fault propagation and reliability of large-scale circuit and attempts to provide effective information for fault diagnosing. We analyse sample circuits from IBM benchmark suit by constructing directional weighting networks and modeling fault propagation. Roles of circuit network parameters are investigated and reliability analysis is given. The result from this work clearly suggest that larger circuit is more likely to arouse deep propagation, and there is no good in pursuit of maximum streamline in circuit design.