In this paper, we revisit the system vulnerability stack for transient faults. We reveal severe
pitfalls in widely used vulnerability measurement approaches, which separate the hardware …

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 …

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 …

Microprocessor power consumption and dependability are both crucial challenges that
designers have to cope with due to shrinking feature sizes and increasing transistor counts …

Over the years, significant work has been done on high-integrity systems, such as those
found in cars, satellites and aircrafts, to minimize the risk that a logic fault causes a system …

Functional safety is a key requirement in several application domains in which
microprocessors are an essential part. A number of redundancy techniques have been …

Autonomous machines, such as Autonomous Vehicles (AV), are vulnerable to a variety of
different faults such as radiation-induced soft/transient errors, adversarial attacks, and …

Reliability evaluation of a microprocessor design may reveal vulnerable silicon areas that
require protection against faults, but also hardware structures that are inherently more …

With the development of large-scale CMOS-integrated circuit manufacturing technology,
microprocessor chips are more vulnerable to soft errors and radiation interference, resulting …

Silent data corruptions (SDCs) pose a significant challenge to the reliable operation of
modern microprocessors. As the need for enhanced performance and reliability continues to …