A Meta-Modeling-Based Approach for Automatic Generation of Fault-Injection Processes

Newly emerging safety standards are driving system-on-chip manufacturers to develop better errordetection and correction mechanisms as well as verification environments for their systems. Fault injection in models is one enhancement for verification environments with which chip aging and safety-critical features (e.g., resilience against radiation sensitivity) are verified. SystemC offers the ability to design functional models on different abstraction levels (e.g., register transfer level, transaction-level modeling). Using the SystemC Fault-Injection Tool (SCFIT), faults are injected into SystemC models without modifying the original models. In this paper, we propose SCFIT Gen, an add-on for SCFIT, which automatically generates the SCFIT user-defined files and documentation about the generated fault-injection processes. Keywords—fault injection; system-level verification; system-on-chip; SystemC