Using application profiling based on a virtual platform for SoC fault tolerance assessment

Luc Noizette (1) , Florent Miller (2) , Thierry Colladant (3) , Youri Helen (4) , Régis Leveugle (1)

1 TIMA-AMfoRS - Architectures and Methods for Resilient Systems
2 NUCLETUDES
3 Direction générale de l'Armement (DGA)
4 DGA.MI - DGA Maîtrise de l'information

Systems on Chip (SoCs) built around processor(s) must provide more and more computing power while ensuring high reliability. In order to ensure a precise reliability assessment, both hardware architecture and software load should be considered. Our research activity is focused on understanding the impact of software characteristics on SoC fault tolerance. A first step, which is presented here, was to develop a versatile profiling tool based on a virtual platform adapted to many processors. This analysis flow has been applied on the RISC-V target and Mibench softwares, allowing us to formulate hypotheses on fault tolerance analyses.

Mots clés: fault tolerance assessment; RISC-V; SoC; software profiling; virtual platform

Domaines: Micro et nanotechnologies/Microélectronique

Luc Noizette, Florent Miller, Thierry Colladant, Youri Helen, Régis Leveugle. Using application profiling based on a virtual platform for SoC fault tolerance assessment. 17th Conference on Ph.D Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME 2022), Jun 2022, Villasimius, Italy. ⟨10.1109/PRIME55000.2022.9816811⟩. ⟨hal-04056721⟩