A survey on simulation-based fault injection tools for complex systems

Maha Kooli (1) , Giorgio Di Natale (1)

1 TEST - Test and dEpendability of microelectronic integrated SysTems

Dependability is a key decision factor in today's global business environment. A powerful method that permits to evaluate the dependability of a system is the fault injection. The principle of this approach is to insert faults into the system and to monitor its responses in order to observe its behavior in the presence of faults. Several fault injection techniques and tools have been developed and experimentally tested. They could be mainly grouped into three categories: hardware fault injection, simulation-based fault injection, and emulation-based fault injection. This paper presents a survey on the simulation-based fault injection techniques, with a focus on complex micro-processor based systems.

Mots clés: Fault; Dependability; Fault Injection

Domaines: Micro et nanotechnologies/Microélectronique

Maha Kooli, Giorgio Di Natale. A survey on simulation-based fault injection tools for complex systems. DTIS: Design and Technology of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale Era, May 2014, Santorini, Greece. ⟨10.1109/DTIS.2014.6850649⟩. ⟨hal-01075473⟩