Title
NoCFI: A Hybrid Fault Injection Method for Networks-On-Chip
Abstract
Networks-On-Chip (NoCs) have emerged as a promising solution to replace global on-chip interconnections in System-On-Chip (SoC) thanks to better performance and lower power. However, the increasing complexity of NoC routers and the continuous miniaturization of silicon technology are making this interconnection circuit increasingly vulnerable to transient faults. Consequently, during the design and verification phase, an accurate fault injection solution is needed to assess the reliability and behavior of the NoC architecture in the presence of faults. In this paper, a hybrid method that combines FPGA-based and Layout-based fault injection is proposed. This method manipulates the gate netlist provided by the ASIC design flow as well as the FPGA design flow to emulate soft errors in the Networks-on-Chip. Furthermore, the automated fault injection campaign supports the emulation of single faults as well as multiple faults by taking cell adjacency into account. Finally, a case study using two-dimensional NoC is used to validate our methodology.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/LATW.2019.8704559
2019 IEEE Latin American Test Symposium (LATS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Fault injection,Network-On-Chip,Multiple bit upset (MBU),multiple event transient (MET),System-On-Chip,FPGA-Flow,ASIC-Flow
Netlist,System on a chip,Computer science,Field-programmable gate array,Network on a chip,Application-specific integrated circuit,Emulation,Interconnection,Fault injection,Embedded system
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-1756-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexandre Coelho131.16
Nacer-Eddine Zergainoh212919.39
Raoul Velazco312419.48