VISION: an efficient parallel pattern fault simulator for synchronous sequential circuits

VISION is an efficient parallel pattern fault simulator for synchronous sequential circuits. VISION is based on an earlier fault simulator called PARIS which was the first and a highly efficient parallel pattern fault simulator. In this paper, we propose four new heuristics which substantially speed up the parallel pattern fault simulation for synchronous sequential circuits. According to our experiments, our fault simulator, VISION, which incorporates the four heuristics, is about 1.6 times faster than PARIS for 16 benchmark circuits.