HIERARCHICAL APPROACH TO DIAGNOSIS OF MIXED-MODE CIRCUITS USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS

Miona Andrejević Stosović ； Dragisa Milovanović ； Vanćo Litovski

《Neural Network World》 21卷2期 (2011/04) Pp. 153-168

https://doi.org/10.14311/NNW.2011.21.010

摘要

Feed-forward artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been applied to the diagnosis of mixed-mode electronic circuit. In order to tackle the circuit complexity and to reduce the number of test points, hierarchical approach to the diagnosis generation was implemented with two levels of decision: the system level and the circuit level. For every level, using the simulation-before-test (SBT) approach, fault dictionary was created first, containing data relating to the fault code and the circuit response for a given input signal. ANNs were used to model the fault dictionaries. During the learning phase, the ANNs were considered as an approximation algorithm to capture the mapping enclosed within the fault dictionary. Later on, in the diagnostic phase, the ANNs were used as an algorithm for mapping the measured data into fault code, which is equivalent to searching the fault dictionary performed by some other diagnostic procedures. At the topmost level, the fault dictionary was split into parts simplifying the implementation of the concept. A voting system was created at the topmost level in order to distinguish which ANN's output is to be accepted as the final diagnostic statement. The approach was tested on an example of an analog-to-digital converter, and only one test point was used, i.e. the digital output. Full diversity of faults was considered in both digital (stuck-at and delay faults) and analog (parametric and catastrophic faults) parts of the diagnosed system. Special attention was paid to the faults related to the A/D and D/A interfaces within the circuit.

關鍵字

Fault diagnosis ； hierarchical systems ； mixed analog-digital circuits ； neural networks