Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely: A register-transfer level (RTL) circuit meeting a design specification may contain some functionally unused paths.If functionally unused paths can be easily identified at RTL,the information can be utilized to eliminate the corresponding gate-level paths from the target of testing.Testing such gate-level paths is considered to be futile. ,  present a method for identifying such functionally unused paths, called RTL don't care paths, using RTL information, and a method of synthesis for transforming the identified paths into untestable paths which will never do a mischief.As a result, our approaches contribute to identification of many untestable paths and reduction of over-testing.
['Yuki Yoshikawa', 'Satoshi Ohtake', 'Tomoo Inoue', 'Hideo Fujiwara']
I am writing a research paper on a idea A Synthesis Method to Alleviate Over-Testing of Delay Faults Based on RTL Don't Care Path Identification
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