NODIFS-simulating faults fast
Sumit Ghosh · IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine · 1994
This article introduces, perhaps for the first time, an asynchronous, distributed, circuit partitioned algorithm that is capable of fault simulating both combinational and sequential digital designs on parallel processors. In this approach, called NODIFS (NOvel asynchronous DIstributed algorithm for Fault Simulation), every circuit component is modeled as an asynchronous and concurrent entity that is checked for faults as soon as appropriate signal transitions and fault lists are asserted at its input ports. The circuit is partitioned such that components of every partition are allocated to a unique processor of the parallel processor system.>