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Abstract | ||
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Traditional approaches to evaluating a system's vulnerability to Single Event Upsets (SEUs) require elaborate and costly radiation beam testing or time-consuming simulation. While beam testing represents definitive evidence of a processor's susceptibility to radiation-induced upsets, we believe that low-cost in-house bit error injection tests provide a valuable tool both in their own right and as an intermediate step towards approximating a processor or application's behavior in the presence of cosmic radiation, prior to beam testing. In this paper we describe a new hardware/software tool named the Memory Sentinel and Injection System (MSIS) that initially targets the two PowerPC 405s within the Xilinx Virtex-4 FX family of FPGAs. The MSIS leverages the configurable logic of an FPGA as well as a custom software interrupt to inject bit errors into the full set of a processor's registers and caches in a user-transparent fashion. By using the second PowerPC as a monitor, the MSIS is capable of performing rapid and unattended fault injection. Through 20,000 injections we demonstrate the impact of the MSIS on a sample sensor-like application and analyze its behavior in the presence of upsets. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2011 | 10.1109/FCCM.2011.43 | FCCM |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
cosmic radiation,beam testing,custom software interrupt,injection system,software tool,sample sensor-like application,costly radiation beam testing,bit error,low-cost in-house bit error,memory sentinel,unattended fault injection,injection test,field programmable gate arrays,cache memory,powerpc,field programmable gate array,registers,ground penetrating radar,system on chip,processor registers,fpga,reduced instruction set computing | Interrupt,System on a chip,Custom software,Computer science,Parallel computing,Field-programmable gate array,Real-time computing,Reduced instruction set computing,Processor register,PowerPC,Fault injection,Embedded system | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
1 | 0.38 | 3 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Bucciero | 1 | 1 | 0.38 |
| John Paul Walters | 2 | 267 | 20.45 |
| Roger Moussalli | 3 | 62 | 5.36 |
| Shanyuan Gao | 4 | 18 | 2.22 |
| Matthew French | 5 | 71 | 9.78 |