Title :
A fault injection tool for SRAM-based FPGAs
Author :
Alderighi, M. ; D´Angelo, S. ; Mancini, M. ; Sechi, G.R.
Author_Institution :
Ist. di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Milano, Italy
Abstract :
A fault injection tool for SRAM-based FPGAs based on the fault emulation technique is presented. Faults are injected by modifying the configuration bitstream while this is loaded into the device, without using standard synthesis tools or available commercial software, such as Jbits or similar. This makes our tool independent of the system used for design development and allows a quick fault injection. Also, any device configuration cell can be accessed and this permits to study the effects of possible contentions or shorts, which cannot be analyzed using commercial tools. An example of the use of the tool is described.
Keywords :
SRAM chips; fault simulation; field programmable gate arrays; integrated circuit testing; logic simulation; logic testing; Jbits; SRAM-based FPGA; configuration bitstream; device configuration cell; fault emulation technique; fault injection tool; quick fault injection; standard synthesis tools; Circuit faults; Circuit simulation; Embedded software; Emulation; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Single event upset; Software tools; Space technology; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
On-Line Testing Symposium, 2003. IOLTS 2003. 9th IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1968-7
DOI :
10.1109/OLT.2003.1214379
