Deterministic high-speed simulation of complex systems including fault-injection

Author

Sand, Matthias ; Potyra, Stefan ; Sieh, Volkmar

Author_Institution

Dept. Inf. 3 (Comput. Archit.), Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen-Nurnberg, Erlangen, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

June 29 2009-July 2 2009

Firstpage

211

Lastpage

216

Abstract

FAUmachine is a virtual machine for the highly detailed simulation of standard PC hardware together with an environment. FAUmachine comes with fault injection capabilities and an automatic experiment controller facility. Due to its use of just-in-time compiler techniques, it offers good performance. This tool description introduces the new feature of FAUmachine to simulate systems deterministically. This will enable developers to design and test complex systems for fault tolerance by running identically reproducible automated tests in reasonable time and thus even allow testing for real time constraints.

Keywords

computer testing; fault diagnosis; fault tolerance; program compilers; virtual machines; FAUmachine; PC hardware simulation; automatic experiment controller facility; deterministic high-speed complex system simulation; fault injection; fault tolerance; just-in-time compiler technique; virtual machine; Automatic control; Automatic testing; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Computer simulation; Fault tolerant systems; Hardware; Real time systems; System testing; Virtual machining;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Dependable Systems & Networks, 2009. DSN '09. IEEE/IFIP International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4422-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4421-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DSN.2009.5270335

Filename

5270335