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Presentation 2009-04-21 13:50
Fast Soft Error Rate Estimation for Circuits Containing Arithmetic Units
Motoharu Hirata, Masayoshi Yoshimura, Yusuke Matsunaga, Hiroto Yasuura (Kyushu Univ.) CPSY2009-5 DC2009-5
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) This paper describes soft errors which are errors in LSI that are due to external radiation.The soft error rate (SER) which means probability of invalid outputs per unit time is one of the estimetion measures for soft error tolerance of LSI.

Logic level estimation method by the fault simulation can strict SER estimation technique.But If worst comes to worst, it costs time that is proportional to the square of scale of the circuit.

The proposed technique can fast SER estimation by omission of logic level simulation in arithmetic units.If we know the input values of arithmetic units, we can calculate the output values of them at high speed by arithmetic operation.When error occured in arithmetic units, the proposed technique uses probabilistic medel about the error propagation to the output of them.The model generates output values of them artifically.The proposed technique aims at the speed-up of the SER estimation by using the model.

Experimental result shows that the proposed technique can estimate about four times as fast as existing technique although the accuracy hardly falls.
Keyword (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) soft error / soft error rate(SER) / fault simulation / arithmetic unit / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 109, no. 12, DC2009-5, pp. 25-30, April 2009.
Paper # DC2009-5 
Date of Issue 2009-04-14 (CPSY, DC) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Information
Committee DC CPSY  
Conference Date 2009-04-21 - 2009-04-21 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Akihabara Satellite Campus, Tokyo Metropolitan Univ. 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Dependable Computer Systems, Security Technology, etc. 
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Conference Code 2009-04-DC-CPSY 
Language Japanese 
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
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Title (in English) Fast Soft Error Rate Estimation for Circuits Containing Arithmetic Units 
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Keyword(1) soft error  
Keyword(2) soft error rate(SER)  
Keyword(3) fault simulation  
Keyword(4) arithmetic unit  
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1st Author's Name Motoharu Hirata  
1st Author's Affiliation Kyushu University (Kyushu Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Masayoshi Yoshimura  
2nd Author's Affiliation Kyushu University (Kyushu Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Yusuke Matsunaga  
3rd Author's Affiliation Kyushu University (Kyushu Univ.)
4th Author's Name Hiroto Yasuura  
4th Author's Affiliation Kyushu University (Kyushu Univ.)
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Date Time 2009-04-21 13:50:00 
Presentation Time 25 minutes 
Registration for DC 
Paper # CPSY2009-5, DC2009-5 
Volume (vol) vol.109 
Number (no) no.11(CPSY), no.12(DC) 
Page pp.25-30 
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Date of Issue 2009-04-14 (CPSY, DC) 


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