Speeding up Fault Simulation using Parallel Fault Simulation

AbstractIn this paper, a novel approach is introduced on accelerating the fault simulation speed on field programmable gate array (FPGA). The approach is based on parallel simulation methodology. More than one faulty circuit is handled in the fault simulation system, but the relative area overhead is low and it will accelerate the simulation process. A new metrics – Speedup relative to the Ratio of Hardware Overhead (SRHO) is introduced, by which the experimental results are evaluated. Experimental results in terms of simulation time, hardware overhead and SRHO for ISCAS-85 benchmark circuits are compared to a previous work to show its advantage