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Tenth International Conference on VLSI Design: VLSI in Multimedia Applications
FAMAS: FAult Modeling via Adaptive Simulation
Hyderabad, India
January 04-January 07
ISBN: 0-8186-7755-4
H. Jin, Coordinated Sci. Lab., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
R.K. Iyer, Coordinated Sci. Lab., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
M.C. Hsueh, Coordinated Sci. Lab., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
This paper describes FAMAS-FAult Modeling via Adaptive Simulation: a software tool that models transient faults and evaluates their impact on latch error probabilities through fault injection. The tool integrates DESSIS (a device-physics-level simulator) and SPICE using an adaptive approach. The behavior of electron hole pairs is captured for semiconductor devices under ionic radiation. Changes in bias voltage due to current surge are taken into account in an iterative fashion during the process of fault model construction. Results show that in general, the adaptively simulated fault model results in higher latch error probabilities than the Messenger model under the same process and electrical conditions.
Index Terms:
integrated circuit modelling, FAMAS, fault injection, adaptive simulation, software tool, latch error probability, transient fault modeling, DESSIS, device-physics-level simulator, SPICE, electron hole pairs, semiconductor device, ionic radiation, current surge
Citation:
H. Jin, R.K. Iyer, M.C. Hsueh, "FAMAS: FAult Modeling via Adaptive Simulation," vlsid, pp.413, Tenth International Conference on VLSI Design: VLSI in Multimedia Applications, 1997
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