Title
A tool for transient fault analysis in combinational circuits
Abstract
With technology downscaling, the vulnerability of combinational logic circuits to transient faults has increased resulting in error rates approaching those of memories. Thus, to guarantee a good use of selective hardening techniques, fast and accurate approaches for transient fault analysis in logic circuits are needed. In this work, we describe a methodology for Soft Error Rate (SER) evaluation in combinational logic circuits that manages the dependency of logical and electrical masking effects in case of reconvergent fanouts. The approach combines analytical transient fault propagation model and fault simulation to speed up simulations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ICECS.2015.7440265
2015 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Transient faults,logic circuits,masking effects,reconvergent fanouts
Logical conjunction,Logic gate,Sequential logic,Soft error,Masking (art),Computer science,Electronic engineering,Combinational logic,Electronic circuit,Speedup
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mariem Slimani1237.05
Lirida A. B. Naviner28326.52