Title :
A method and an automated tool to perform SET fault-injection on HDL-based designs
Author :
Mansour, Wassim ; Velazco, Raoul ; Ayoubi, Rafic ; Ziade, Haissam ; El Falou, Wassim
Author_Institution :
TIMA Labs., Grenoble, France
Abstract :
A fully automated fault-injection method is presented. It deals with transient faults resulting from the impact of energetic particles and it can be applied early at design phase, on any circuit for which the register transfer level model is available. Results issued from its application to an Artificial Neural Network benchmark application put in evidence the accuracy of the studied method to predict error rates due to transient faults generated by the radiation environment.
Keywords :
neural nets; radiation hardening (electronics); transients; HDL-based designs; SET fault-injection; artificial neural network benchmark application; automated tool; energetic particles; radiation environment; register transfer level model; transient faults; Circuit faults; Computers; Indexes; Monitoring; Reliability; SDRAM; Table lookup; Fault Injection; Hardware Description Language; SRAM-based FPGA; Single Event Transients; soft-errors;
Conference_Titel :
Microelectronics (ICM), 2013 25th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beirut
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3569-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICM.2013.6734986
