Using Run-Time Reconfiguration for Fault Injection in Hardware Prototypes

  • Authors:
  • Lörinc Antoni;Régis Leveugle;Béla Fehér

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • DFT '00 Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault-Tolerance in VLSI Systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In this paper, approaches using Run-Time Reconfiguration (RTR) for fault injection in programmable systems are introduced. In FPGA-based systems, an important characteristic is the time to reconfigure the hardware. With novel FPGA families, (e.g. Virtex, A T6000) it is possible to reconfigure the hardware partially in run-time. Important timesavings can be achieved when taking advantage of this characteristic for fault injection as only a small part of the device must be reconfigured.