TY - JOUR
T1 - A Digital On-Line Monitor for Detecting Intermittent Resistance Faults at Board Level
AU - Ebrahimi, Hassan
AU - Kerkhoff, Hans G.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was carried out within the Horizon 2020 IMMORTAL project, ¯nanced by the European Commission (EC) and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO). The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of A. Ibrahim of the TDT group for is help with the IJTAG implementation.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 World Scientific Publishing Company.
PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - The reliability of board-level data communications intensively depends on the reliability of interconnections on a board. One of the most challenging interconnections reliability threats is intermittent resistive faults (IRFs). Detecting such faults is a major challenge. The main reason is the random behavior of these faults. They may occur randomly in time, duration and amplitude. The occurrence rate can vary from a few nanoseconds to months. This paper investigates IRF detection at the board level by introducing a new digital in situ IRF monitor. Hardware-based fault injection has been used to validate the proposed IRF monitor. As case studies, two widely used on-board transmission protocols namely the Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) and the Serial Peripheral Interface bus (SPI), have been used. In addition, one fault management framework, based on the IJTAG standard, has been implemented to collect and characterize information from the monitors. The experimental results show that the proposed monitor is effective in detecting IRFs at the board level.
AB - The reliability of board-level data communications intensively depends on the reliability of interconnections on a board. One of the most challenging interconnections reliability threats is intermittent resistive faults (IRFs). Detecting such faults is a major challenge. The main reason is the random behavior of these faults. They may occur randomly in time, duration and amplitude. The occurrence rate can vary from a few nanoseconds to months. This paper investigates IRF detection at the board level by introducing a new digital in situ IRF monitor. Hardware-based fault injection has been used to validate the proposed IRF monitor. As case studies, two widely used on-board transmission protocols namely the Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) and the Serial Peripheral Interface bus (SPI), have been used. In addition, one fault management framework, based on the IJTAG standard, has been implemented to collect and characterize information from the monitors. The experimental results show that the proposed monitor is effective in detecting IRFs at the board level.
KW - board-level fault detection
KW - intermittent fault detection
KW - intermittent resistive faults
KW - no faults found
KW - Reliability
KW - n/a OA procedure
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U2 - 10.1142/S0218126619400036
DO - 10.1142/S0218126619400036
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85065740028
SN - 0218-1266
VL - 28
JO - Journal of circuits, systems and computers
JF - Journal of circuits, systems and computers
M1 - 1940003
ER -