Fault Injection Techniques and Tools for Embedded Systems Reliability Evaluation

✍ Scribed by Yangyang Yu, Barry W. Johnson (auth.), Alfredo Benso, Paolo Prinetto (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 237
• Series: Frontiers in Electronic Testing 23
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Fault Injection Techniques and Tools for Embedded Systems Reliability Evaluation intends to be a comprehensive guide to Fault Injection techniques used to evaluate the dependability of a digital system. The description and the critical analysis of different Fault Injection techniques and tools will be authored by key scientists in the field of system dependability and fault tolerance.

✦ Table of Contents

Fault Injection Techniques....Pages 7-39
Dependability Evaluation Methods....Pages 41-48
Soft Errors on Digital Components....Pages 49-60
Pin-Level Hardware Fault Injection Techniques....Pages 63-79
Development of a Hybrid Fault Injection Environment....Pages 81-93
Heavy Ion Induced See in Sram Based FPGAs....Pages 95-107
“Bond”: An Agents-Based Fault Injector for Windows NT....Pages 111-123
Xception™: A Software Implemented Fault Injection Tool....Pages 125-139
MAFALDA: A Series of Prototype Tools for the Assessment of Real Time COTS Microkernel-Based Systems....Pages 141-156
VHDL Simulation-Based Fault Injection Techniques....Pages 159-176
MEFISTO: A Series of Prototype Tools for Fault Injection into VHDL Models....Pages 177-193
Simulation-Based Fault Injection and Testing Unsing the Mutation Technique....Pages 195-215
New Acceleration Techniques for Simulation-Based Fault-Injection....Pages 217-230

✦ Subjects

Circuits and Systems; Electronic and Computer Engineering; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design; Systems Theory, Control