A modified debugging infrastructure to assist real time fault injection campaigns

Fault injection is frequently used for the verification and validation of the fault tolerant features of microprocessors. This paper proposes the modification of a common on-chip debugging (OCD) infrastructure to add fault injection capabilities and improve performance. The proposed solution imposes...

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Main Author: André V. Fidalgo (author)
Other Authors: Gustavo R. Alves (author), José M. Ferreira (author)
Format: book
Language:eng
Published: 2006
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10216/84661
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/84661
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Summary:Fault injection is frequently used for the verification and validation of the fault tolerant features of microprocessors. This paper proposes the modification of a common on-chip debugging (OCD) infrastructure to add fault injection capabilities and improve performance. The proposed solution imposes a very low logic overhead and provides a flexible and efficient mechanism for the execution of fault injection campaigns, being applicable to different target system architectures.