A comparison of simulation based and scan chain implemented fault injection

Digest of Papers - 28th Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, FTCS 1998

Volumn 1998-January, Issue , 1998, Pages 284-293

  Folkesson, Peter ^a   Svensson, Sven ^a   Karlsson, Johan ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boundary scan; Concurrent error detection; Experimental validation; Fault injection; VHDL

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER CIRCUITS; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; ERROR DETECTION; FAULT TOLERANCE; SOFTWARE TESTING;

BOUNDARY SCAN; CONCURRENT ERROR DETECTION; CONTROL FLOW CHECKING; ERROR-DETECTION MECHANISM; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FAULT INJECTION; FAULT INJECTION TECHNIQUES; VARIABLE CONSTRAINTS;

FAULT DETECTION;

EID: 0141672902     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FTCS.1998.689479     Document Type: Conference Paper

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