Synthesizing testable combinational circuits

Citation
Ay. Matrosova et al., Synthesizing testable combinational circuits, AUT REMOT R, 60(2), 1999, pp. 250-256
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
AI Robotics and Automatic Control
Journal title
AUTOMATION AND REMOTE CONTROL
ISSN journal
00051179 → ACNP
Volume
60
Issue
2
Year of publication
1999
Part
2
Pages
250 - 256
Database
ISI
SICI code
0005-1179(199902)60:2<250:STCC>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
It is advisable to synthesize combinational circuits with regard for-their testability - for example, with regard for the existence of a simple proced ure for constructing a sufficiently short full checking test, that is, a te st detecting all multiple stuck-at-1(0) failures at the terminals of circui t elements. It is proved that if a combinational circuit is synthesized fro m the irredundant System of disjunctive normal forms using factorization me thods, then a simple procedure, for constructing a full test can be obtaine d for it. The length of the test is equal at;most to the stem of the ranks of the conjunctions of the irredundant system of disjunctive normal forms p lus Me sum of the powers of the characteristics of conjunctions of this sys tem.