The ANTICS Fault Simulator
The ANTICS Fault Simulation Software has been designed by the VLSI group for research into the testability of analogue and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The fault simulation approach used can be thought of in three stages:
The repeated simulation stage uses HSPICE(TM) as a core analogue circuit simulator.
Features
The main features of the ANTICS software are as follows:
- Uses industry standard HSPICE simulator - standard netlists for circuit description
- Supports fault injection into fully hierarchical circuit descriptions
- Redundant and equivalent faults (shorts) detected
- User-defined fault models using a SPICE-based description language
- Parallel simulation over a network cluster of workstations to reduce "user" simulation time
- Several post-processing algorithms to model ATE and BIST/DFT techniques
- Powerful Monte Carlo random number generation for statistical circuit analysis
Software Structure
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This is the basic structure of the ANTICS analogue fault simulation software. The software consists of 4 programs which have been written in C. Versions for SUNOS 4.1.3. and HP workstations are currently available. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of ANTICS please e-mail I.M.Bell@hull.ac.uk.
Documentation
For more information download the ANTICS USER GUIDE