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Modeling and analyzing timing faults in transaction level SystemC programs

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Since SoC (System on Chip) and NoC (Network on Chip) systems are getting more complex everyday, they are subject to different types of faults including timing faults. Timing has a significant importance in NoC systems. However, their fault-affected models are not studied extensively. In this paper, we present a method for modeling and analyzing timing faults in SystemC Transaction Level Modeling (TLM) programs. The proposed method includes three steps, namely timed model extraction, fault modeling and timed model checking. We use UPPAAL timed automata to formally model the SystemC TLM programs and monitor how the models behave in the presence of timing faults. We analyze our method using a case study. This case study utilizes loosely-timed coding style, which has a loose dependency between timing and data.

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  • (2014)Analysis of Permanent Faults in Transaction Level SystemC ModelsProceedings of the 2014 IEEE 34th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops10.1109/ICDCSW.2014.33(154-160)Online publication date: 30-Jun-2014
  • (2014)Evaluating the Effect of Faults in SystemC TLM Models Using UPPAALSoftware Engineering and Formal Methods10.1007/978-3-319-10431-7_13(175-189)Online publication date: 2014

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NoCArc '13: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures
December 2013
72 pages
ISBN:9781450323703
DOI:10.1145/2536522
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NoCArc '13: Network on Chip Architectures
December 8, 2013
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  • (2014)Analysis of Permanent Faults in Transaction Level SystemC ModelsProceedings of the 2014 IEEE 34th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops10.1109/ICDCSW.2014.33(154-160)Online publication date: 30-Jun-2014
  • (2014)Evaluating the Effect of Faults in SystemC TLM Models Using UPPAALSoftware Engineering and Formal Methods10.1007/978-3-319-10431-7_13(175-189)Online publication date: 2014

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