Error Detection in Fault Secure Controllers using State Encoding

  • Authors:
  • Eckart Voskamp;Wolfgang Rosenstiel

  • Affiliations:
  • Texas Instruments Germany, Mixed Signal Systems, Haggertystr. 1, 85356 Fsing, Germany;University of Tuebingen, Sand 13, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • EDTC '96 Proceedings of the 1996 European conference on Design and Test
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

In applications where safety is of utmost importance, defective functions must frequently be detected very early in order to restore the system to a safe operating condition. At the same time the availability may not be restricted by measures implemented to detect errors. The efficiency of error detection state encodings for a control unit is investigated based on the example of the Motorola micro-processor core M68HC11. The terms "dependent encoding" and "independent encoding" are introduced. The designed circuits are compared regarding to error detection of stuck-at errors and chip area. The degree of error detection is shown with the help of a fault simulation.