🧪 Fault

 

Fault is a complete open source design for testing (DFT) Solution that includes automatic test pattern generation for netlists, scan chain stitching, synthesis scripts and a number of other convenience features.

Installation and Usage

See the documentation at https://fault.readthedocs.io.

Copyright & Licensing

All rights reserved ©2018-2024 The American University in Cairo and other contributors. Fault is available under the Apache 2.0 License: See License.

SOFTWARE INCLUDED WITH SOME FAULT DISTRIBUTIONS, I.E. ATALANTA AND PODEM, WHILE FREE TO DISTRIBUTE, ARE PROPRIETARY, AND MAY NOT BE USED FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES.

References

• Z. Navabi, Digital System Test and Testable Design : Using Hdl Models and Architectures. 2010;2011;. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7548-5. Book
• Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki: Pyverilog: A Python-based Hardware Design Processing Toolkit for Verilog HDL, 11th International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing (ARC 2015) (Poster), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.9040/2015, pp.451-460, April 2015. Paper

Publication(s)

• M. Abdelatty, M. Gaber, M. Shalan, "Fault: Open Source EDA’s Missing DFT Toolchain," IEEE Design & Test Magazine. April 2021. Paper
• Mohamed Gaber, Manar Abdelatty, and Mohamed Shalan, "Fault, an Open Source DFT Toolchain," Article No.13, Workshop on Open-Source EDA Technology (WOSET), 2019. Paper