Student Thesis STUD-2306

BibliographySchneider, Eric: CUDA-accelerated Delay Fault Simulation.
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology, Student Thesis No. 2306 (2011).
78 pages, english.
CR-SchemaB.7.1 (Integrated Circuits, Types and Design Styles)
B.8.1 (Reliability, Testing, and Fault-Tolerance)
C.1.4 (Processor Architectures, Parallel Architectures)
C.4 (Performance of Systems)
D.1.3 (Concurrent Programming)
J.6 (Computer-Aided Engineering)
Abstract

In todays VLSI chip manufacturing processes variations occur, that may manifest as delay defects and affect the timing behaviour of the circuit. In general, these delay faults only occur under at-speed test conditions and it requires special effort to simulate them. Since fault simulation is inherently parallelizable, NVIDIAs Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) is used for utilizing general purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs) in order to exploit available parallelism. The goal of this study thesis was the implementation of a delay fault simulator to simulate the behaviour of small delay faults on CUDA devices and its integration into a diagnosis framework for application of the Partially Overlapping Impact couNTER (POINTER) algorithm. A series of experiments was performed to observe the diagnosability of the delay faults.

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Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Technical Computer Science, Computer Architecture
Superviser(s)Holst, Stefan
Entry dateJune 19, 2023
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