Effectiveness and limitations of various software techniques for "soft error" detection: a comparative study

B. Nicolescu (1) , Raoul Velazco (2) , M.S. Reorda (2)

1 EPM - École Polytechnique de Montréal
2 TIMA - Techniques de l'Informatique et de la Microélectronique pour l'Architecture des systèmes intégrés

Deals with different software based strategies allowing the on-line detection of bit flip errors arising in microprocessor-based digital architectures as the consequence of the interaction with radiation. Fault injection experiments put in evidence the detection capabilities and the limitations of each of the studied techniques.

Mots clés: software-techniques; soft-error-detection; on-line-detection; bit-flip-errors; microprocessor-based-digital-architectures; fault-injection-experiments; detection-capabilities; radiation-effects; transient-effects; single-event-effects

Domaines: Micro et nanotechnologies/Microélectronique

B. Nicolescu, Raoul Velazco, M.S. Reorda. Effectiveness and limitations of various software techniques for "soft error" detection: a comparative study. 2001, pp.172-177, ⟨10.1109/OLT.2001.937838⟩. ⟨hal-00008210⟩