Framework for fault injection in hardware

Aggressive scaling of device structures increased the susceptibility of hardware designs to transient faults and ageing effects, making reliability estimation of a design a required step in the design flow. Reliability can be assessed empirically by fault injection into the design under investigation followed by simulation or emulation.
This thesis targets a fault injection framework for hardware designs that allows to inject different types of faults into the components of the design and evaluate their impact during runtime. Requirements on this framework are

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Wunderlich ( Email: wu@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de )
Michael Kochte ( Email: Michael.Kochte@iti.uni-stuttgart.de )