Fault Detection and Isolation Techniques for Quasi Delay-Insensitive Circuits

This paper presents a novel circuit fault detection and isolation technique for quasi delay-insensitive asynchronous circuits. We achieve fault isolation by a combination of physical layout and circuit techniques. The asynchronous nature of quasi delay-insensitive circuits combined with layout techniques makes the design tolerant to delay faults. Circuit techniques are used to make sections of the design robust to non-delay faults. The combination of these is a asynchronous defecttolerant circuit where a large class of faults are tolerated, and the remaining faults can be both detected easily and isolated to a small region of the design.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: DSN
• Authors: Christopher LaFrieda, Rajit Manohar
• Keywords: Asynchronous, Circuit Techniques, Computer Networks, Delay-insensitive Asynchronous Circuits, DSN 2004