Experimental evaluation of a set of simple error detection mechanisms

Abstract

A set of simple error detection mechanisms were evaluated through fault injection experiments in order to assess their error detection coverage and latency. All the mechanisms evaluated were implemented in an actual system and faults were physically injected on the system bus. The main selection criteria of the studied set of error detection mechanisms were the simplicity and low cost of its implementation. Results have shown that more than 75% of the injected faults were detected by these fairly simple error detection mechanisms.