Hardware and software fault simulation

R Stroph; T Clarke

Hardware and software fault simulation

Electronic Engineering

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Abstract

This paper describes the technique of fault acceleration implementation for analysis of a fault tolerant system based on a transputer network. It is imperative that a fault tolerant system's dependability is validated to ensure that its algorithms and mechanisms have been correctly implemented, and that it provides the required level of service. Hence, to undertake an investigation of fault tolerant approaches, it is necessary to realise a fault injection scheme which provides an acceleration of the occurrence of failures. This is a prerequisite, due to the very low natural failure rate, which makes it practically impossible to validate any fault tolerant mechanism otherwise. The fault injection mechanism was designed for a transputer-based fault tolerant application and is explained in detail. A helicopter flight control simulation is presented as a case study.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SIMULATION '98
Place of Publication	EDISON
Publisher	INST ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS INSPEC INC
Pages	413-419
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	0-85296-709-8
Publication status	Published - 1998
Event	International Conference on Simulation - YORK Duration: 30 Sept 1998 → 2 Oct 1998

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Simulation
City	YORK
Period	30/09/98 → 2/10/98

Keywords

software implemented fault injection
fault tolerant control

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