Reliability on ARM Processors against Soft Errors by a Purely Software Approach

A set of software-based techniques to detect soft errors in embedded ARM processors at low costs is presented. Fault injection results show high fault coverage at performance and memory overheads inferior to state-of-the-art techniques.

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