Dependability Evaluation of COTS Microprocessors via On-Chip debugging facilities

This paper presents a fault injection tool and methodology for performing Single-Event-Upsets (SEUs) injection campaigns on Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) microprocessors. This method takes advantage of the debug facilities of modern microprocessors along with standard GNU Debugger (GDB) for execut...

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Autores Principales: Isaza-González, José, Serrano-Cases, Alejandro, Restrepo-Calle, Felipe, Cuenca-Asensi, Sergio, Martínez-Álvarez, Antonio
Formato: Artículo
Idioma: Español
Publicado: Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá 2017
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Acceso en línea: http://revistas.utp.ac.pa/index.php/id-tecnologico/article/view/1432
http://ridda2.utp.ac.pa/handle/123456789/1781
Sumario: This paper presents a fault injection tool and methodology for performing Single-Event-Upsets (SEUs) injection campaigns on Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) microprocessors. This method takes advantage of the debug facilities of modern microprocessors along with standard GNU Debugger (GDB) for executing and debugging benchmarks. The developed experiments on real boards, as well as on virtual machines, demonstrate the feasibility and flexibility of the proposal as a low-cost solution for assessing the reliability of COTS microprocessors