A dynamic communication strategy for the distributed ATPG system DPLATON

Abstract

This paper presents the structure of the Distributed Computing ATPG System DPLATON, with special emphasis on the distribution strategy basis and the communication structures implemented. The proposed system is based on a dynamic fault listpartition criterion. The standard Remote Procedure Call (RPC) and Emem1 Data Representation (XDR) mechanisms have been adapted to construct an Ocient dynamic distributed implementation. Reduced test sets and important CPU time speed-up factors are reported.

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“…There are several published papers on strategies for partitioning netlists, faults and patterns for parallel and/or distributed ATPG/fault simulation [6][7][8][9]. The objective of this paper is not to propose another such algorithm.…”