Schotbruch: Automatisierte Ableitung von Injektionsplattformen für transiente Hardwarefehler aus formalen Prozessormodellen

Fault injection is a common approach to systematically assess the resilience of a system and the effectiveness of software-based counter measures. It tries to mimic either physical causes for single event upsets (by exposing the system to e.g. heat or radiation) or their effects (by changing logic signals). For the fault injection, we use the simulation-based fault injection framework FAIL*, which extracts program traces and simulates the representative faults.

SAIL is a imperative language for describing the instruction-set architecture (ISA) semantics of processors. Given a Sail definition, the tool can generate executable emulators in C language. So, one can use definitions of different ISAs on the basis of one single tool including type and sanity checking.

First goal is to integrate SAIL into the fault-injection framework FAIL* we use. The vision is that with SAIL the integration of different or new ISA into FAIL* becomes easier and makes it feasible to evaluate different ISAs due to faults injected.

The next step will be evaluating the integrated architecture comparing to other architectures regarding to their resilience against such faults using the simulation-based fault injection framework FAIL*.

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