Distributed FlexTest
FastScan and FlexTest Reference Manual, V8.6_4 5-3
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.