Presentation 2015-11-19
A Measurement Method for the Extent of Simultaneous Soft Errors
Noboru Masuda, Moritoshi Yasunaga,
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Abstract(in English) Regarding the LSI soft error caused by the neutron beam, a single particle of neutron may cause multiple chained soft errors at once. Consequently, in order to reduce the total soft error damage, it is necessary to know the extent of the multiple chained soft errors. In the measurement of the extent, some acceleration experiment is indispensable, and it is required to detect the error bit location(s) as soon as possible after the soft errors occur. Conventional SRAMs, however, need long scanning time to locate the error bit(s). Therefore, we propose a novel LSI structure specified for the chained soft errors measurement and its measurement methodology. We fabricated an emulator of the LSI and its controller LSI using FPGAs, respectively. In the experimental measurement, it was demonstrated that the emulator reduced the location detection time of a soft error by 1/4000 compared with the conventional method.
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Keyword(in English) neutron beam / soft error / multiple occurrence at once / acceleration experiment
Paper # R2015-57
Date of Issue 2015-11-12 (R)

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Conference Date 2015/11/19(1days)
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Chair Hiroyasu Mawatari(NTT)
Vice Chair Tetsushi Yuge(National Defense Academy)
Secretary Tetsushi Yuge(Fujitsu)
Assistant Maratt Zanikef(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.) / Nobuyuki Tamura(Hosei Univ.)

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Title (in English) A Measurement Method for the Extent of Simultaneous Soft Errors
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Keyword(1) neutron beam
Keyword(2) soft error
Keyword(3) multiple occurrence at once
Keyword(4) acceleration experiment
1st Author's Name Noboru Masuda
1st Author's Affiliation University of Tsukuba(Univ. of Tsukuba)
2nd Author's Name Moritoshi Yasunaga
2nd Author's Affiliation University of Tsukuba(Univ. of Tsukuba)
Date 2015-11-19
Paper # R2015-57
Volume (vol) vol.115
Number (no) R-313
Page pp.pp.5-10(R),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2015-11-12 (R)