Evaluating the faulty behavior of low-cost embedded microprocessor-based boards is an increasingly important issue, due to their adoption in many safety critical systems. The architecture of a complete Fault Injection environment is proposed, integrating a module for generating a collapsed list of faults, and another for performing their injection and gathering the results. To address this issue, the paper describes a software-implemented Fault Injection approach based on the Trace Exception Mode available in most microprocessors. The authors describe EXFI, a prototypical system implementing the approach, and provide data about some sample benchmark applications. The main advantages of EXFI are the low cost, the good portability, and the high efficiency

EXFI: a low cost Fault Injection System for embedded Microprocessor-based Boards / Benso, Alfredo; Prinetto, Paolo Ernesto; Rebaudengo, Maurizio; SONZA REORDA, Matteo. - In: ACM TRANSACTIONS ON DESIGN AUTOMATION OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS. - ISSN 1084-4309. - STAMPA. - 5:4(1998), pp. 626-634. [10.1145/296333.296351]

EXFI: a low cost Fault Injection System for embedded Microprocessor-based Boards

BENSO, Alfredo;PRINETTO, Paolo Ernesto;REBAUDENGO, Maurizio;SONZA REORDA, Matteo
1998

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Evaluating the faulty behavior of low-cost embedded microprocessor-based boards is an increasingly important issue, due to their adoption in many safety critical systems. The architecture of a complete Fault Injection environment is proposed, integrating a module for generating a collapsed list of faults, and another for performing their injection and gathering the results. To address this issue, the paper describes a software-implemented Fault Injection approach based on the Trace Exception Mode available in most microprocessors. The authors describe EXFI, a prototypical system implementing the approach, and provide data about some sample benchmark applications. The main advantages of EXFI are the low cost, the good portability, and the high efficiency
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