Distributed FlexTest
Parallelism during Fault Simulation mode is also exploited using data-parallelism by distributing faults across processors. However, since fault simulation is a deterministic process, the coverage results in serial and parallel invocations are the same. Parallel fault simulation is extremely useful in reducing the turnaround time for fault grading of large functional vector sets. Parallel fault simulation also uses static and dynamic load balancing to equalize loads at run time.
Distributed FlexTest also has the ability to diagnose problems with remote processes in case one of the remote processes terminates abnormally or doesn’t start-up at all.
FastScan and FlexTest Reference Manual, V8.6_4 | 5-3 |
