12–16 Nov 2018
ESA/ESTEC
Europe/Amsterdam timezone

Fault Injection Methodologies

13 Nov 2018, 15:30
1h
Newton 1-2 (ESA/ESTEC)

Newton 1-2

ESA/ESTEC

Keplerlaan 1, 2200 AG Noordwijk The Netherlands
Tests and simulations Tests and simulations

Speaker

Prof. Luis Entrena Arrontes (Universidad Carlos III Madrid)

Description

Fault injection is a widely used method to evaluate fault effects and error mitigation in a design. While not a replacement for standard Radiation- Hardness Assurance methodologies, it can provide valuable information in a quick and inexpensive manner. Moreover, recent developments have improved performance by several orders of magnitude, thus enabling the realization of extremely large fault injection campaigns. Today, fault injection can be used to forecast the expected circuit behaviour in the occurrence of SEUs and SETs, validate error mitigation approaches and detect weak areas that require error mitigation. This talk will review the most relevant fault injection methods, covering software-based techniques, simulation techniques and FPGA-based emulation techniques. Recent advances for SET and MCU emulation will also be presented.

Primary author

Prof. Luis Entrena Arrontes (Universidad Carlos III Madrid)

Presentation materials