An efficient AVF estimation technique using circuit partitioning

This paper investigates a novel modular approach to efficiently estimate the Architectural Vulnerability Factor (AVF) of large designs by employing circuit partitioning and error propagation techniques. Modular approach is a hybrid of statistical fault injection technique and analysis based technique. Results show that for the same level of accuracy, our modular approach arrives at the AVF within 6% of that estimated by the traditional full circuit statistical fault injection, with a speedup of 2X in terms of CPU time.