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Brigham Young University

Theses and Dissertations

2005

Reliability

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Estimating The Dynamic Sensitive Cross Section Of An Fpga Design Through Fault Injection, Darrel E. Johnson Apr 2005

Estimating The Dynamic Sensitive Cross Section Of An Fpga Design Through Fault Injection, Darrel E. Johnson

Theses and Dissertations

A fault injection tool has been created to emulate single event upset (SEU) behavior within the configuration memory of an FPGA. This tool is able to rapidly and accurately determine the dynamic sensitive cross section of the configuration memory for a given FPGA design. This tool enables the reliability of FPGA designs and fault tolerance schemes to be quickly and accurately tested. The validity of testing performed with this fault injection tool has been confirmed through radiation testing. A radiation test was conducted at Crocker Nuclear Laboratory using a proton accelerator in order to determine the actual dynamic sensitive cross …