A systematic procedure for locating resistive bridges is presented. Critical path tracing is used to identify a set of “suspect” bridges whose presence could explain all of the observed faulty behavior of the circuit for the original test set. The set of suspects is then reduced by adaptively applying additional tests derived from the failing vector pairs in the original test set. Unlike other ...

the task of balancing of assembly lines is well-known in mass production system but this problem is np-hard even for the simple straight line. therefore, utilizing heuristic methods for these problems is totally unquestionable. furthermore, in line with balancing problems, heuristic methods are the foundation of the metaheuristic methods, thus it seems to be necessary to use more efficient heur...

project planning is part of project management, which is relates to the use of schedules such as gantt charts to plan and subsequently report progress within the project environment. initially, the project scope is defined and the appropriate methods for completing the project are determined. in this paper a new approach for the critical path analyzing a project network with random fuzzy activi...

Efficient performance tuning of parallel programs is often hard. Optimization is often done when the program is written as a last effort to increase the performance. With sequential programs each (executed) code segment will affect the total execution time of the program. Thus, any code segment that is optimized in a sequential program will decrease the execution time. In the case of a parallel...

We show how the global critical path can be used as a practical tool for understanding, optimizing and summarizing the behavior of highly concurrent self-timed circuits. Traditionally, critical path analysis has been applied to DAGs, and thus was constrained to combinatorial sub-circuits. We formally define the global critical path (GCP) and show how it can be constructed using only local infor...

This paper challenges the conventional thinking, by proposing a new way to understand and use the term critical-path. At stake is much more than a semantic discussion of terminology. Numerous surveys have confirmed that CPM schedules are used for two primary reasons: project management and dispute resolution. To support either use, the critical-path must be identifiable in a consistent, objecti...