Fault diagnosis of logical circuit by use of correlation and neural network

This paper describes a new method of pseudorandom testing of a digital circuit by use of correlation method and a neural network. The authors have recently proposed a new method of fault diagnosis of logical circuit by applying a pseudorandom M-sequence to the circuit under test, calculating the crosscorrelation function between the input and the output, and comparing the crosscorrelation functions with the references. This method, called MSEC method, is further extended by using a neural network in order to not only detect the existence of faults but also find the place or location of the faults. An experiment by using a simple digital circuit shows enough applicability of this method to industrial testing of circuit board.