IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Online ISSN : 1745-1337
Print ISSN : 0916-8508
Regular Section
Error Propagation Analysis for Single Event Upset considering Masking Effects on Re-Convergent Path
Go MATSUKAWAYuta KIMIShuhei YOSHIDAShintaro IZUMIHiroshi KAWAGUCHIMasahiko YOSHIMOTO
Author information
JOURNAL RESTRICTED ACCESS

2016 Volume E99.A Issue 6 Pages 1198-1205

Details
Abstract

As technology nodes continue to shrink, the impact of radiation-induced soft error on processor reliability increases. Estimation of processor reliability and identification of vulnerable flip-flops requires accurate soft error rate (SER) analysis techniques. This paper presents a proposal for a soft error propagation analysis technique. We specifically examine single event upset (SEU) occurring at a flip-flop in sequential circuits. When SEUs propagate in sequential circuits, the faults can be masked temporally and logically. Conventional soft error propagation analysis techniques do not consider error convergent timing on re-convergent paths. The proposed technique can analyze soft error propagation while considering error-convergent timing on a re-convergent path by combinational analysis of temporal and logical effects. The proposed technique also considers the case in which the temporal masking is disabled with an enable signal of the erroneous flip-flop negated. Experimental results show that the proposed technique improves inaccuracy by 70.5%, on average, compared with conventional techniques using ITC 99 and ISCAS 89 benchmark circuits when the enable probability is 1/3, while the runtime overhead is only 1.7% on average.

Content from these authors
© 2016 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Previous article Next article
feedback
Top