@inproceedings{RaabRacekKraemeretal., author = {Raab, Peter and Racek, Stanislav and Kr{\"a}mer, Stefan and Mottok, J{\"u}rgen}, title = {Data Flow Analysis of Software Executed by Unreliable Hardware}, series = {16th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, booktitle = {16th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, doi = {10.1109/DSD.2013.35}, pages = {243 -- 249}, abstract = {The data flow is a crucial part of software execution in recent applications. It depends on the concrete implementation of the realized algorithm and it influences the correctness of a result in case of hardware faults during the calculation. In logical circuits, like arithmetic operations in a processor system, arbitrary faults become a more tremendous aspect in future. With modern manufacturing processes, the probability of such faults will increase and the result of a software's data flow will be more vulnerable. This paper shows a principle evaluation method for the reliability of a software's data flow with arbitrary soft errors also with the concept of fault compensation. This evaluation is discussed by means of a simple example based on an addition.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{RaabRacekKraemeretal., author = {Raab, Peter and Racek, Stanislav and Kr{\"a}mer, Stefan and Mottok, J{\"u}rgen}, title = {Reliability of Task Execution during Safe Software Processing}, series = {15th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, Cesme, Turkey}, booktitle = {15th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, Cesme, Turkey}, doi = {10.1109/DSD.2012.110}, pages = {84 -- 89}, abstract = {This paper presents the reliability evaluation of task execution during safe software processing. The standard method of duplication in a safety-critical application can also be applied for tasks in a software system. But in addition to this, there is also the possibility for coded task processing to increase the reliability and availability of software. The presented analysis covers the reliability analysis of a single, a duplicated and a coded task by the technique of continuous time Markov processes. Markov processes are often used for the reliability evaluation of safety-critical systems. We introduce a method to describe the execution time of tasks by means of enhanced Markov models and their solution by numerical methods.}, language = {en} }