Studying error propagation on application data structure and hardware

Z Ozturk, HR Topcuoglu, MT Kandemir - The Journal of Supercomputing, 2022 - Springer
As technology scales, transistors become smaller and aggressive power optimization
techniques combined with high operation frequencies and performance-enhancing …

Selective duplication and selective comparison for data flow error detection

VB Thati, J Vankeirsbilck, J Boydens… - 2019 4th International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Embedded systems' hardware can be impacted by soft errors, which can cause data flow
errors in the systems' software. In this paper, we present a novel software-based approach to …

Utilizing Parity Checking to Optimize Soft Error Detection Through Low-Level Reexecution

B De Blaere, J Vankeirsbilck… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Higher component density, lower voltage levels, and higher transistor counts increase
programmable systems' susceptibility to transient faults. At the same time, the adoption of …

An automated framework for selectively tolerating SDC errors based on rigorous instruction-level vulnerability assessment

HA Ahmad, Y Sedaghat - Future Generation Computer Systems, 2024 - Elsevier
The recent trend in most processor manufacturing technologies has significantly increased
the vulnerability of embedded systems operating in harsh environments against soft errors …

Hybrid technique for soft error detection in dependable embedded software: a first experiment

VB Thati, J Vankeirsbilck, D Pissoort… - 2019 IEEE XXVIII …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Embedded systems' hardware can be impacted by soft errors, which causes either a data
flow error or a control flow error in the systems' software. To counter such errors, numerous …

Impact of selective implementation on soft error detection through low-level re-execution

M Nikscresht, B De Blaere… - 2021 IEEE Intl Conf …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software-implemented hardware fault tolerance techniques can be used as a cost-effective
alternative to hardware-implemented techniques to enhance the resilience of …

Soft error detection through low-level re-execution

B De Blaere, J Vankeirsbilck… - 2021 5th International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, embedded systems are widely used both in general-purpose as well as in safety-
critical applications. Due to technological advances, these embedded systems can operate …

LDSFI: A lightweight dynamic software-based fault injection

HA Ahmad, Y Sedaghat… - 2019 9th International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, numerous safety-critical systems have employed a variety of fault tolerance
techniques, which are considered an essential requirement to keep the system fault-tolerant …

A Study on Selective Implementation Approaches for Soft Error Detection Using S-SWIFT-R

M Nikseresht, J Vankeirsbilck, J Boydens - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
This article analyzes diverse criteria for effectively implementing selective hardening against
soft errors through software-based strategies. The goal is to obtain maximum fault coverage …

Using Hardware-In-Loop-Based Fault Injection to Determine the Effects of Control Flow Errors in Industrial Control Programs

J Vankeirsbilck, H Hallez, J Boydens - International Conference on …, 2020 - Springer
Embedded systems, which are at the core of many small scale and large scale machines,
are affected by external disturbances which can introduce control flow errors. These control …