Fault Injection Techniques and Tools for Embedded Systems Reliability Evaluation

Fault Injection Techniques and Tools for Embedded Systems Reliability Evaluation intends to be a comprehensive guide to Fault Injection techniques used to evaluate the dependability of a digital system. The description and the critical analysis of different Fault Injection techniques and tools will be authored by key scientists in the field of system dependability and fault tolerance.

A First Look at Fault Injection.- Fault Injection Techniques.- Dependability Evaluation Methods.- Soft Errors on Digital Components.- Hardware-Implemented Fault Injection.- Pin-Level Hardware Fault Injection Techniques.- Development of a Hybrid Fault Injection Environment.- Heavy Ion Induced See in Sram Based FPGAs.- Software-Implemented Fault Injection.- “Bond”: An Agents-Based Fault Injector for Windows NT.- Xception™: A Software Implemented Fault Injection Tool.- MAFALDA: A Series of Prototype Tools for the Assessment of Real Time COTS Microkernel-Based Systems.- Simulation-Based Fault Injection.- VHDL Simulation-Based Fault Injection Techniques.- MEFISTO: A Series of Prototype Tools for Fault Injection into VHDL Models.- Simulation-Based Fault Injection and Testing Unsing the Mutation Technique.- New Acceleration Techniques for Simulation-Based Fault-Injection.