Distance-Ranked Fault Identification of Reconfigurable Hardware Bitstreams via Functional Input

Table 1

Analogy of FPGA testing characteristics with ranking.

Context	Ranked element	Ranking metric	Dynamic coverage
Web search	Webpage content	Page views	Yes
Bioinformatics	Metabolic and protein interaction network databases	Biochemical reactions	No
FPGA failure testing	FPGA configuration	Output discrepancy distance	Yes