IEEE Launches New Standards Projects for Digital Modules & Single-Mode Fiber
Revision to IEEE Std 1016™ Also Approved
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PISCATAWAY, N.J., USA, 18 March 2009-- The IEEE has approved work to begin on two new standards for computer hardware, including an amendment to the popular IEEE 1394™ standard.
The first new project, IEEE P1804™, "Standard for Fault Accounting and Coverage Reporting to Digital Modules (FACR)," will formalize aspects of fault models as they are relevant to the generation of test patterns for digital circuits. The standard will help to set uniform metrics for digital circuits with respect to their test quality in terms of coverage, as well as for different automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) tools which are used to generate test patterns for these circuits.
The scope for this new standard includes (i) fault counting (ii) fault classification, and (iii) fault coverage reporting across different ATPG tools, for the single stuck-at fault model. With this standard, it will be incumbent on all ATPG tools which comply to this standard to report fault coverage in a uniform way, thereby facilitating the generation of a uniform coverage (and hence a test quality) metric for large chips with different cores and modules, for which test patterns have been independently generated.
IEEE P1804 is sponsored by the Test Technology Committee of the IEEE Computer Society.The second new standards project is an amendment to an existing standard. IEEE P1394d™, "IEEE Standard for a High-Performance Serial Bus - Amendment: IEEE 1394 Single-Mode Fiber Physical Medium (PMD) Specification," will allow IEEE 1394™ devices to take advantage of the extended capabilities of single-mode fiber. IEEE 1394 is also known as FireWire™, and this standard will employ some material developed by the 1394 Trade Association.
IEEE P1394d is sponsored by the Microprocessor Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society.
IEEE has also approved a revision to an existing standard. IEEE 1016™, "Standard for Information Technology - Systems Design - Software Design Descriptions," describes information content and organization for Software Design Descriptions (SDDs). This standard is applicable to automated databases and design description languages but can be used for paper documents and other means of descriptions.
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