2005 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN'05) SoftArch: An Architecture Level Tool for Modeling and Analyzing Soft Errors Yokohama, Japan June 28-July 01 ISBN: 0-7695-2282-3
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/DSN.2005.88
Soft errors are a growing concern for processor reliability. Recent work has motivated architecture-level studies of soft errors since the architecture can mask many raw errors and architectural solutions can exploit workload knowledge. This paper proposes a model and tool, called SoftArch, to enable analysis of soft errors at the architecture-level in modern processors. SoftArch is based on a probabilistic model of the error generation and propagation process in a processor. Compared to prior architecture-level tools, SoftArch is more comprehensive or faster. We demonstrate the use of SoftArch for an out-of-order superscalar processor running SPEC2000 benchmarks. Our results are consistent with, but more comprehensive than, prior work, and motivate selective and dynamic architecture-level soft error protection mechanisms.
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"SoftArch: An Architecture Level Tool for Modeling and Analyzing Soft Errors," dsn, pp.496-505, 2005 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN'05), 2005 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||