Distributed diagnostic fault simulation for synchronous sequential circuits by dynamic fault partitioning

In this paper, a distributed diagnostic fault simulation for sequential circuits by dynamic fault partitioning is proposed, in which the indistinguishable faults for all the detectable faults are obtained from different machines. Several ISCAS89 benchmark circuits have been experimented on. For a circuit s35932, less than one hour of CPU time is spent by using 4 SUN SPARC stations II.