• DocumentCode
    1399005
  • Title

    Analyzing the Impact of Intermittent Faults on Microprocessors Applying Fault Injection

  • Author

    Gil-Tomas, D. ; Gracia-Moran, J. ; Baraza-Calvo, J.-Carlos ; Saiz-Adalid, Luis-J. ; Gil-Vicente, P.-J.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. de Inf. de Sist. y Comput., Univ. Politec. de Valencia (UPV), Valencia, Spain
  • Volume
    29
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    66
  • Lastpage
    73
  • Abstract
    Intermittent faults, being serious concerns for deep-submicron integrated circuits, are not well studied in the literature. This paper performs fault injection simulation to analyze the impact of intermittent faults, which is an important step towards the development of mitigation techniques for such threats.
  • Keywords
    fault simulation; integrated circuit reliability; microprocessor chips; deep-submicron integrated circuits; fault injection; fault injection simulation; fault mitigation technique; intermittent fault impact; microprocessor faults; Circuit faults; Fault tolerance; Hardware design languages; Microprocessors; Reduced instruction set computing; Reliability; Simulation; Transient analysis; Fault injection; Hardware description languages; Reliability; Simulation; Testing and Fault Tolerance; Verification;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Design & Test of Computers, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0740-7475
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MDT.2011.2179514
  • Filename
    6104213