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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Nicolescu, B.
• Velazco, R.

Titel

Detecting soft errors by a purely software approach: method, tools and experimental results

Ist Teil von

• 2003 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, 2003, p.57-62 suppl.

Ort / Verlag

IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

Quelle

IEEE Electronic Library Online

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this paper is described a software technique allowing the detection of soft errors occurring in processor-based digital architectures. The detection mechanism is based on a set of rules allowing the transformation of the target application into a new one, having the same functionalities but being able to identify bit-flips arising in memory areas as well as those perturbing the processor's internal registers. Experimental results issued from fault injection sessions and preliminary radiation test campaigns, performed on a complex DSP processor, provide objective figures about the efficiency of the proposed error detection technique.