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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 1988
Filed:
Sep. 02, 1986
Richard E Glackemeyer, Harvard, MA (US);
Robert C Petty, Princeton, MA (US);
Calvin F Page, Brookline, NH (US);
Digital Equipment Corporation, Worcester, MA (US);
Abstract
The method and apparatus for isolating faults in circuitry of a digital computer includes the use of a fault isolation generation program which provides a data base containing a list of possible faulty components for each cycle of the computer's clock for execution by a service processor of the actual computer during testing. The fault isolation generation program is generated by using a simulator loaded with a mathematical model of the actual computer in connection with the execution of the diagnostic program executed on the actual computer during testing. The fault isolation program generates a list of circuit elements capable of generating fault indications, excluding circuit elements not capable of generating such fault indications.