Model-based fault injection for failure effect analysis — Evaluation of dependable SRAM for vehicle control units

We propose a fault-injection system (FIS) that can inject faults such as read/write margin failures and soft errors into a SRAM environment. The fault case generator (FCG) generates time-series SRAM failures in 7T/14T or 6T SRAM, and the proposed device model and fault-injection flow are applicable for system-level verification. For evaluation, an abnormal termination rate in vehicle engine control was adopted. We confirmed that the vehicle engine control system with the 7T/14T SRAM improves system-level dependability compared with the conventional 6T SRAM.