IEEE P1804, IEEE 1016 Address Digital Modules, Single-Mode Fiber
June 1, 2009 // Published as a news service by IHS
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is developing IEEE P1804, formulating an amendment to IEEE P1394d for computer hardware and revising IEEE 1016.
The first 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, according to IEEE.
The standard will help 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 standard includes fault counting, fault classification and fault coverage reporting across different ATPG tools for the single stuck-at fault model.
This standard specifies that all ATPG tools report fault coverage in a uniform way, thereby facilitating the generation of a uniform coverage (and test quality) metric for large chips with different cores and modules for which test patterns were independently generated, according to IEEE.
IEEE P1804 is sponsored by the Test Technology Committee of the IEEE Computer Society.
The second standards project is an amendment to IEEE P1394d - IEEE Standard for a High-Performance Serial Bus - Amendment: IEEE 1394 Single-Mode Fiber Physical Medium (PMD) Specification, which will allow IEEE 1394 devices to offer 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 also approved a revision to IEEE 1016 - Standard for Information Technology - Systems Design - Software Design Descriptions, which describes information content and organization for software design descriptions.
This standard is applicable to automated databases and design description languages but can also be used for paper documents and other means of descriptions.
Source: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE-SA).