Software canaries: Software-based path delay fault testing for variation-aware energy-efficient design

John Sartori; Rakesh Kumar

doi:10.1145/2627369.2627646

Software canaries: Software-based path delay fault testing for variation-aware energy-efficient design

John Sartori, Rakesh Kumar

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Software-based path delay fault testing (SPDFT) has been used to identify faulty chips that cannot meet timing constraints due to gross delay defects. In this paper, we propose using SPDFT for a new purpose - aggressively selecting the operating point of a variation-affected design. In order to use SPDFT for this purpose, test routines must provide high coverage of potentially-critical paths and must have low dynamic performance overhead. We describe how to apply SPDFT for selecting an energy-efficient operating point for a variation-affected processor and demonstrate that our test routines achieve ample coverage and low overhead.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	ISLPED 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	159-164
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781450329750
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2627369.2627646
State	Published - 2014
Event	2014 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, ISLPED 2014 - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: Aug 11 2014 → Aug 13 2014

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Name	Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design
ISSN (Print)	1533-4678

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Conference	2014 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, ISLPED 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego, CA
Period	8/11/14 → 8/13/14

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Sartori, J., & Kumar, R. (2014). Software canaries: Software-based path delay fault testing for variation-aware energy-efficient design. In ISLPED 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (pp. 159-164). (Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1145/2627369.2627646

Software canaries: Software-based path delay fault testing for variation-aware energy-efficient design. / Sartori, John; Kumar, Rakesh.
ISLPED 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014. p. 159-164 (Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design).

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Sartori, J & Kumar, R 2014, Software canaries: Software-based path delay fault testing for variation-aware energy-efficient design. in ISLPED 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 159-164, 2014 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, ISLPED 2014, San Diego, CA, United States, 8/11/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2627369.2627646

Sartori J, Kumar R. Software canaries: Software-based path delay fault testing for variation-aware energy-efficient design. In ISLPED 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2014. p. 159-164. (Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design). doi: 10.1145/2627369.2627646

Sartori, John ; Kumar, Rakesh. / Software canaries : Software-based path delay fault testing for variation-aware energy-efficient design. ISLPED 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014. pp. 159-164 (Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design).

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