[comp.lsi] Fault grading of VLSI

berlek@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Elwyn Berlekamp) (03/21/90)

I am interested in finding out what net designers use for
fault grading of their designs.
Are there any public domain CAD tools for doing this?
What has your experience been with commercial offerings?
Are there fault graders which can use a switch-level
netlist (eg. some filtered form of mextra output)
What is your experience with how slow (or fast) these
are? hardware platforms? cost?
I will try and summarize the results for this group.
Thanks in advance.