An effective fault localization approach for Verilog based on enhanced contexts
Zhuo ZHANG1, Ya LI2, Lei XIA3(), Jianxin XUE4, Jiang WU5, Xiaoguang MAO5
1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, China 2. Ningbo Artificial Intelligence Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Ningbo 315000, China 3. No.83 Army Joint and Truma Disease Treatment Centre of PLA, Xinxiang 453000, China 4. Department of Software Engineering, Shanghai Second Polytechnic University, Shanghai 201209, China 5. College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
Float point unitused for floating-point operations
293
10
1580
0.0027-0.131
SHA256
A cryptographic hash function algorithm standard
553
13
4119
0.0075-0.089
Pci
communication interface program
957
8
1552
0.0008-0.025
Uart
communication interface program
318
6
1061
0.0017-0.163
USB
communication interface program
298
10
2133
0.0027-0.101
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