Avoiding Pitfalls in Fault-Injection Based Comparison of Program Susceptibility to Soft Errors

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn 2015-September, Issue , 2015, Pages 319-330

  Schirmeier, Horst ^a   Borchert, Christoph ^a   Spinczyk, Olaf ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absolute Failure Count; Fault Coverage Factor; Fault Injection; Program Susceptibility Comparison; Result Interpretation; SIHFT; Single Bit Flips; Soft Errors

Indexed keywords

ERROR CORRECTION; ERRORS; FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MACHINERY; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; SOFTWARE TESTING;

FAILURE COUNTS; FAULT COVERAGES; FAULT INJECTION; PROGRAM SUSCEPTIBILITY COMPARISON; RESULT INTERPRETATION; SIHFT; SINGLE BIT FLIPS; SOFT ERROR;

RADIATION HARDENING;

EID: 84950115158     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSN.2015.44     Document Type: Conference Paper

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