A survey on fault injection techniques

Haissam Ziade (1) , Rafic Ayoubi (2) , Raoul Velazco (3)

1 ULFG - Faculty of Engineering [Lebanese University]
2 UOB - University of Balamand [Liban]
3 TIMA - Techniques de l'Informatique et de la Microélectronique pour l'Architecture des systèmes intégrés

Fault tolerant circuits are currently required in several major application sectors. Besides and in complement to other possible approaches such as proving or analytical modeling whose applicability and accuracy are significantly restricted in the case of complex fault tolerant systems, fault-injection has been recognized to be particularly attractive and valuable. Fault injection provides a method of assessing the dependability of a system under test. It involves inserting faultsvinto a system and monitoring the system to determine its behavior in response to a fault. Several fault injection techniques have been proposed and practically experimented. They can be grouped into hardware-based fault injection, software-based fault injection, simulation-based fault injection, emulation-based fault injection and hybrid fault injection. This paper presents a survey on fault injection techniques with comparison of the different injection techniques and an overview on the different tools.

Mots clés: fault simulation; VLSI circuit; fault tolerance; fault injection; fault injector; VHDL fault model

Domaines: Micro et nanotechnologies/Microélectronique

Haissam Ziade, Rafic Ayoubi, Raoul Velazco. A survey on fault injection techniques. The international Arab journal of information technology, 2004, 1 (2), pp.171-186. ⟨hal-00105562⟩