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Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 29, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Stefan Payer, Stuttgart, DE;

Michael Klein, Schoenaich, DE;

Nicol Hofmann, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, DE;

Cedric Lichtenau, Stuttgart, DE;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/3185 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 30/327 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/318525 (2013.01); G06F 11/1032 (2013.01); G06F 11/1076 (2013.01); G06F 30/327 (2020.01);
Abstract

Aspects include parsing, by a computer system, a design file of an integrated circuit including a plurality of stages to extract a plurality of inputs and outputs of a plurality of latches. The computer system can sort the latches based on latch locations in the stages and build a plurality of ordered vectors of signals before and after the latches based on the sorting. The computer system can build a plurality of parity vectors for each of the ordered vectors of signals before and after the latches, build a latch bank for each of the parity vectors before the latches, and build a parity vector comparison to detect a parity failure based on comparing the parity vectors after the latches with an output of the latch bank.


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