Title :
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
fDate :
June 29 2009-July 2 2009
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/DSN.2009.5270335
