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12th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium (IOLTS'06)
Real Time Fault Injection Using a Modified Debugging Infrastructure
Lake of Como, Italy
July 10-July 12
ISBN: 0-7695-2620-9
Andr? V. Fidalgo, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Gustavo R. Alves, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Jos? M. Ferreira, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Dependability is a critical factor in computer systems, requiring high quality validation & verification procedures in the development stage. At the same time, digital devices are getting smaller and access to their internal signals and registers is increasingly complex, requiring innovative debugging methodologies. To address this issue, most recent microprocessors include an on-chip debug (OCD) infrastructure to facilitate common debugging operations. This paper proposes an enhanced OCD infrastructure with the objective of supporting the verification of fault-tolerant mechanisms through fault injection campaigns. This upgraded On-Chip Debug and Fault Injection (OCD-FI) infrastructure provides an efficient fault injection mechanism with improved capabilities and dynamic behavior. Preliminary results show that this solution provides flexibility in terms of fault triggering and allows high speed real-time fault injection in memory elements.
Citation:
Andr? V. Fidalgo, Gustavo R. Alves, Jos? M. Ferreira, "Real Time Fault Injection Using a Modified Debugging Infrastructure," iolts, pp.242-250, 12th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium (IOLTS'06), 2006
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