A Fault Tolerant Approach to Detect Transient Faults in Microprocessors Based on a Non-Intrusive Reconfigurable Hardware

作者：Azambuja Jose Rodrigo^*; Pagliarini Samuel; Altieri Mauricio; Kastensmidt Fernanda Lima; Huebner Michael; Becker Juergen; Foucard Gilles; Velazco Raoul

来源：IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 2012, 59(4): 1117-1124.

DOI：10.1109/TNS.2012.2201750

• Fault tolerance
• microprocessors
• reconfigurable
• single event effects

This paper presents a non-intrusive hybrid fault detection approach that combines hardware and software techniques to detect transient faults in microprocessors. Such faults have a major influence in microprocessor-based systems, affecting both data and control flow. In order to protect the system, an application-oriented hardware module is automatically generated and reconfigured on the system during runtime. When combined with fault tolerance techniques based on software, this solution offers full system protection against transient faults. A fault injection campaign is performed using a MIPS microprocessor executing a set of applications. HW/SW implementation in a reprogrammable platform shows smaller memory area and execution time overhead when compared to related works. Fault injection results show the efficiency of this method by detecting 100% of faults.

• 出版日期2012-8