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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2006
Tapan Jyoti Chakraborty, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Tapan Jyoti Chakraborty, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
The invention includes a method and apparatus for injecting dynamic faults in a circuit device. The apparatus includes a first register adapted with selection data identifying selected ones of a plurality of outputs of the circuit device and/or selected ones of a plurality of error registers of the circuit device, a second register adapted with dynamic fault data for propagation toward the selected ones of the outputs of the circuit device and/or the selected ones of the error registers of the circuit device, and a controller for applying the selection data to the first register and the dynamic fault data to the second register in a manner for providing a dynamic fault on each of the selected ones of the outputs of the circuit device and/or each of the selected ones of the error registers of the circuit device.