摘要: Fault Collapsing of a target fault-list can help in obtaining compact test set, decreasing test-generation/fault simulation time, and indirectly reducing data volume application time during Manufacturing Test. These factors have direct impact on economics, thus fault list is essential. In this paper, we propose novel extensibility relation that aids identifying non-trivial dominance relationships among fault-pairs. We show our technique supersedes existing dominance-based collapsing techniques may identify more relations faults. To end, learn several necessary assignments for faults low-cost independent manner, which memory requirements are also low. Further, from theoretical point interest, theorize lower bound the size collapsed fault-list. Experimental results ISCAS85 full-scan versions ISCAS89 circuits indicate that, an average, eliminate 5% reported by best known engine. consumed only 2% -4% used engine, provided 2:3x average speed-up!