Impact of Soft Errors in a Jet Engine Controller
Paper i proceeding, 2012

We present an experimental study in which we investigate the impact of particle induced soft errors occurring in the microprocessor of an experimental FADEC system. The study focuses on the impact of single bit faults in the instruction set architecture (ISA) registers. For such faults, we investigate the effectiveness of the error detection mechanisms included in the FADEC system, and determine the consequences of errors that escape detection. To this end, we injected single bit faults in the ISA registers of a Freescale MC68340 microprocessor during execution of a prototype jet engine control program. Utilizing both random fault injection and partially exhaustive injections, we conducted six fault injection campaigns comprising in total more than 7000 injected faults. Twenty-three percent of the injected faults were effective, i.e., they affected the outputs of the control program. Of these, the system detected 91%. Of the 9 % that escaped detection, 7% caused a minor deviation in engine thrust that would be harmless to flight safety, while 2% caused severe or potentially catastrophic changes in engine thrust.

error detection

cosmic neutrons

FADEC

error coverage

fault injection

soft errors

Författare

Olof Hannius

Volvo Group

Johan Karlsson

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Datorteknik

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

03029743 (ISSN) 16113349 (eISSN)

Vol. 7612 223-234
978-3-642-33677-5 (ISBN)

Ämneskategorier

Datorteknik

Data- och informationsvetenskap

Styrkeområden

Informations- och kommunikationsteknik

Transport

DOI

10.1007/978-3-642-33678-2_19

ISBN

978-3-642-33677-5

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