PROOFS: a super fast fault simulator for sequential circuits

This paper describes PROOFS, a super fast fault simulator for synchronous sequential logic circuits. PROOFS achieves high performance by combining all the advantages in differential fault simulation, single fault propagation, and parallel fault simulation to minimize the memory requirements, to reduce events that need to be simulated, and to simplify the complexity of the software implementation. The experimental results of PROOFS and other available fault simulators on 20 benchmark circuits showed that PROOFS is the best.<
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