Fault Models and Injection Strategies in SystemC Specifications

This paper presents fault models and fault injection strategies designed in a simulation platform with reflection capabilities, used for simulating complex systems specified by using SystemC and by adopting a platform-based design approach. The approach allows the designer to work at different levels of abstraction and to take into account permanent and transient faults, and -- most important -- it features a transparent and dynamic mechanism for both injecting faults and analyzing the produced errors, in order to evaluate possible fault detection and/or tolerance design techniques.