A comprehensive fault diagnosis technique for reversible logic circuits

Fault diagnosis is a complex and challenging problem in reversible logic circuits. The paper proposes a novel fault diagnosis technique for missing control faults in reversible logic circuits. The main focus of this technique is to extract the unique fault signature for each missing control fault in the circuit. The fault signatures are the sequences of test vectors to identify the location of the faults. Based on these fault signatures a unique fault diagnosis tree is built. Our proposed fault diagnosis algorithm is used to traverse the fault diagnosis tree to find the presence and location of the fault. The traversal process is simple and fast. The algorithm executes in linear time and experimental results for benchmark circuits show the reduction of test patterns compared to earlier works.

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