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The Boundary-Scan technology was proposed fifteen years ago to overcome the limitations of testing digital devices due to the increasing complexity and greater miniaturization of integrated circuits and boards. The use of pin-level fault-injection faced similar difficulties and became obsolete for that reason. In this paper we discuss the use of the Boundary-Scan infrastructure for fault-injection purposes. Several fundamental constraints of such approach are identified. Generic digital systems and processors with Boundary-Scan based OCD are considered as target system candidates. We observe that by combining OCD mechanisms with modified boundary-scan cells most of the constraints reported are solved. Finally, some key properties of the technology such as the orthogonality to the purely functional architecture and the low abstraction level access as well as the standard interface and description language provided make it a good candidate to provide a standardized flexible fault injection framework.
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Santos, L., Zenha Rela, M. (2003). Constraints on the Use of Boundary-Scan for Fault Injection. In: de Lemos, R., Weber, T.S., Camargo, J.B. (eds) Dependable Computing. LADC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2847. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45214-0_6
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