Demystifying soft error assessment strategies on arm cpus: Microarchitectural fault injection vs. neutron beam experiments

A Chatzidimitriou, P Bodmann… - 2019 49th Annual …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fault injection in early microarchitecture-level simulation CPU models and beam
experiments on the final physical CPU chip are two established methodologies to access the …

Characterizing soft error vulnerability of cpus across compiler optimizations and microarchitectures

G Papadimitriou, D Gizopoulos - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a fine-grained characterization of the impact of transient faults (soft
errors) on program execution for different compiler optimization levels and two out-of-order …

Soft error effects on arm microprocessors: Early estimations versus chip measurements

PR Bodmann, G Papadimitriou… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extensive research efforts are being carried out to evaluate and improve the reliability of
computing devices either through beam experiments or simulation-based fault injection …

Comprehensive analysis of alpha and neutron particle-induced soft errors in an embedded processor at nanoscales

M Ebrahimi, A Evans, MB Tahoori… - … , Automation & Test …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radiation-induced soft errors have become a key challenge in advanced commercial
electronic components and systems. We present results of Soft Error Rate (SER) analysis of …

Multi-bit upsets vulnerability analysis of modern microprocessors

A Chatzidimitriou, G Papadimitriou… - 2019 IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Miniaturization of integrated circuits brings more devices (thus more functionality) on the
same silicon area but also makes them more vulnerable to soft (transient) errors …

Demystifying GPU reliability: Comparing and combining beam experiments, fault simulation, and profiling

FF dos Santos, SKS Hari, PM Basso… - 2021 IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have moved from being dedicated devices for multimedia
and gaming applications to general-purpose accelerators employed in High-Performance …

Reliability exploration of system-on-chip with multi-bit-width accelerator for multi-precision deep neural networks

Q Cheng, M Huang, C Man, A Shen… - … on Circuits and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep neural networks (DNNs) in safety-critical applications demand high reliability even
when running on edge-computing devices. Recent works on System-on-Chip (SoC) design …

Impact of voltage scaling on soft errors susceptibility of multicore server cpus

D Agiakatsikas, G Papadimitriou, V Karakostas… - Proceedings of the 56th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Microprocessor power consumption and dependability are both crucial challenges that
designers have to cope with due to shrinking feature sizes and increasing transistor counts …

Code-dependent and architecture-dependent reliability behaviors

V Fratin, D Oliveira, C Lunardi, F Santos… - 2018 48th Annual …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increased need for computing capabilities and higher efficiency have stimulated
industries to make available in the market novel architectures with increased complexity …

Experimental and analytical study of xeon phi reliability

D Oliveira, L Pilla, N DeBardeleben… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
We present an in-depth analysis of transient faults effects on HPC applications in Intel Xeon
Phi processors based on radiation experiments and high-level fault injection. Besides …