Paper Info
Title
A Fast Analytical Approach to Multi-cycle Soft Error Rate Estimation of Sequential Circuits
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a very fast analytical approach to measure the overall circuit Soft Error Rate (SER) and to identify the most vulnerable gates and flip-flops. In the proposed approach, we first compute the error propagation probability from an error site to primary outputs as well as system bistables. Then, we perform a multi-cycle error propagation analysis in the sequential circuit. The results show that the proposed approach is four to five orders of magnitude faster than the Monte Carlo (MC) simulation-based fault injection approach with 92% accuracy. This makes the proposed approach applicable to industrial-scale circuits.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/DSD.2010.74
DSD
Keywords
Field
DocType
error statistics,flip-flops,probability,sequential circuits,SER,error propagation probability,flip-flop,multicycle soft error rate estimation,sequential circuit,Fault Tolerant,Single Event Upsets,Soft Error Rate Estimation
Monte Carlo method,Logic gate,Sequential logic,Propagation of uncertainty,Soft error,Computer science,Parallel computing,Real-time computing,Flip-flop,Electronic circuit,Fault injection
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.39
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mahdi Fazeli127131.45
Seyed Ghassem Miremadi253150.32
Hossein Asadi332331.94
Mehdi B. Tahoori41537163.44