LIFTING: A Flexible Open-Source Fault Simulator

Author

Bosio, A. ; Natale, G. Di

Author_Institution

Lab. d´´lnf., Univ. Montpellier II, Montpellier

fYear

2008

fDate

24-27 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

35

Lastpage

40

Abstract

This paper presents LIFTING (LIRMM fault simulator), an open-source simulator able to perform both logic and fault simulations for single/multiple stuck-at faults and single event upset (SEU) on digital circuits described in Verilog. Compared to existing tools, LIFTING provides several features for the analysis of the fault simulation results, meaningful for research purposes. Moreover, as an open-source tool, it can be customized to meet any user requirements. Experimental results show how LIFTING has been exploited on research fields. Eventually, execution time for large circuit simulations is comparable to the one of commercial tools.

Keywords

circuit simulation; fault simulation; hardware description languages; logic simulation; logic testing; LIFTING; LIRMM fault simulator; Verilog; circuit simulations; digital circuits SEU; fault simulations; flexible open-source fault simulator; logic simulations; open-source tool; single event upset; single/multiple stuck-at faults; Circuit faults; Circuit simulation; Circuit testing; Digital circuits; Discrete event simulation; Logic circuits; Logic testing; Open source software; Performance evaluation; Single event upset; Fault simulator; Open-source; logic simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Asian Test Symposium, 2008. ATS '08. 17th

Conference_Location

Sapporo

ISSN

1081-7735

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3396-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ATS.2008.17

Filename

4711556