Validation by fault injection of a software error detection technique dealing with critical Single Event Upsets

International audienceSingle Event Upset (SEU) phenomena is becoming a major concern in applications design, especially in the context of space applications. In this paper, a software error detection methodology is evaluated by means of fault injection performed on a 64-bits processor while it executes a benchmark application. The obtained results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology: a high percent of faults affecting the program counter of the studied processor were detected