Since the early 1960's there has developed a great interest, both in industry and academia, in the subjects of maintenance and reliability of digital systems. The increased complexity of current systems makes this interest well justified. Costs associated with the necessity to maintain such systems represent a substantial and growing percentage of total system costs. In this book we consider many of the problems associated with diagnosing failures in digital systems, locating the source of such failures, and the related problem of design of ultra reliable systems - systems which do not fail despite the presence of physical defects (fault tolerance), systems which diagnose their own failures (self checking), and systems which are easily tested. Although many of the problems considered are in theory intractable, in practice most have solution procedures which are practical and effective. The book emphasizes these procedures and when available presents several procedures for each problem. With the increased interest in this subject area courses have been devel­ oped at many universities. This book is intended as a text for such courses and can also be used for self study by the practicing engineer familiar with digital circuits and systems. The first chapter is an introduction to the subject matter and notation of the book. The next two chapters consider in detail the problems associated with efficient detection and location of fail­ ures in combinational and sequential circuits respectively.

Diagnosis and Reliable Design of Digital Systems

Breuer, Melvin A.

Computer Science Pr

<p>This updated printing of the leading text and reference in digital systems testing and testable design provides comprehensive, state-of-the-art coverage of the field. Included are extensive discussions of test generation, fault modeling for classic and new technologies, simulation, fault simulation, design for testability, built-in self-test, and diagnosis. Complete with numerous problems, this book is a must-have for test engineers, ASIC and system designers, and CAD developers, and advanced engineering students will find this book an invaluable tool to keep current with recent changes in the field.</p>

Digital Systems Testing & Testable Design

Engineering & Transportation

Friedman, Arthur D.

Abramovici, Miron

Engineering

Wiley-IEEE Press

Design automation deals with the use of computers as a tool or aid in the design and manufacturing of digital systems.  In 1968, the Executive Committee of the IEEE Computer Group created a committee to produce a sequence of books on design automation.  This book is primarily concerned with digital system synthesis and the use of high level languages and support programs as design aids.  Chapter 1 deals with the subject of system level simulation (evaluation) where complex digital systems are described in terms of the I/O characteristics (probabilistically).  Chapter 2 deals with concepts of high level hardware design languages called register transfer (RT) languages, which have important applications to design using microprogramming, microprocessors, and functional IC chips.  Chapter 3 deals with the construction of simulators for models of systems described by RT languages.  Chapter 4 deals with the use of various design automation tools for the efficient development of correct and minimal micro-code.  Chapter 5 deals with various approaches to achieving an efficient data base system and how to manage various data manipulation and search problems associated with large design automation software systems.  Each chapter concludes with a set of problems thus making it a useful text for a design automation course as well as an essential reference.

Digital System Design Automation Languag

Computer Science Press

Diagnosis & reliable design of digital systems (Digital system design series)

<p>Since the early 1960's there has developed a great interest, both in industry and academia, in the subjects of maintenance and reliability of digital systems. The increased complexity of current systems makes this interest well justified. Costs associated with the necessity to maintain such systems represent a substantial and growing percentage of total system costs. In this book we consider many of the problems associated with diagnosing failures in digital systems, locating the source of such failures, and the related problem of design of ultra reliable systems - systems which do not fail despite the presence of physical defects (fault tolerance), systems which diagnose their own failures (self checking), and systems which are easily tested. Although many of the problems considered are in theory intractable, in practice most have solution procedures which are practical and effective. The book emphasizes these procedures and when available presents several procedures for each problem. With the increased interest in this subject area courses have been devel oped at many universities. This book is intended as a text for such courses and can also be used for self study by the practicing engineer familiar with digital circuits and systems. The first chapter is an introduction to the subject matter and notation of the book. The next two chapters consider in detail the problems associated with efficient detection and location of fail ures in combinational and sequential circuits respectively.</p>

Diagnosis & Reliable Design of Digital Systems (Digital System Design Series)

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

Springer

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