• DocumentCode
    3083780
  • Title

    A systematic approach for Failure Modes and Effects Analysis of System-On-Chips

  • Author

    Mariani, Riccardo ; Boschi, Gabriele

  • Author_Institution
    YOGITECH SpA, Pisa
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    8-11 July 2007
  • Firstpage
    187
  • Lastpage
    188
  • Abstract
    This paper proposes a method to perform failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) on system-on- chips (SoC). An automatic tool extracts information from the SoC description and uses them to estimate the intrinsic criticality of invariant and elementary "sensitive zones " and to compute metrics such failure rates, safe failures fraction and diagnostic coverage. A validation flow based on fault injection and fault simulation is included to cross check the FMEA.
  • Keywords
    failure analysis; fault diagnosis; fault simulation; system-on-chip; FMEA; SoC; automatic tool; diagnostic coverage; elementary sensitive zones; failure modes and effects analysis; failure rates; fault injection; fault simulation; intrinsic invariant criticality; safe failures fraction; system-on-chips; systematic approach; validation flow; Circuit analysis; Circuit faults; Circuit simulation; Data mining; Databases; Failure analysis; IEC standards; Performance analysis; Safety; System-on-a-chip;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    On-Line Testing Symposium, 2007. IOLTS 07. 13th IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Crete
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2918-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IOLTS.2007.10
  • Filename
    4274843