SS-SERA:An improved framework for architectural level soft error reliability analysis

作     者：成玉 马安国 王永文 唐遇星 张民选 

作者机构：School of Computer ScienceNational University of Defense Technology People's Liberation Army Troops 61741 

出 版 物：《Journal of Central South University》 (中南大学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2012年第19卷第11期

页      面：3129-3146页

核心收录：

学科分类：08[工学] 081402[工学-结构工程] 081304[工学-建筑技术科学] 0813[工学-建筑学] 0814[工学-土木工程] 

基　　金：Projects(60970036,60873016,61170045)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Projects(2009AA01Z102,2009AA01Z124)supported by the National High Technology Development Program of China 

主　　题：soft error architectural vulnerability factor (AVF) AVF estimation model 

摘      要：Integrated with an improved architectural vulnerability factor （AVF） computing model, a new architectural level soft error reliability analysis framework, SS-SERA （soft error reliability analysis based on SimpleScalar）, was developed. SS-SERA was used to estimate the AVFs for various on-chip structures accurately. Experimental results show that the AVFs of issue queue （IQ）, register update units （RUU）, load store queue （LSQ） and functional unit （FU） are 38.11%, 22.17%, 23.05% and 24.43%, respectively. For address-based structures, i.e., levell data cache （LID）, DTLB, level2 unified cache （L2U）, levell instruction cache （LII） and ITLB, AVFs of their data arrays are 22.86%, 27.57%, 14.80%, 8.25% and 12.58%, lower than their tag arrays＇ AVFs which are 30.01%, 28.89%, 17.69%, 10.26% and 13.84%, respectively. Furthermore, using the AVF values obtained with SS-SERA, a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the AVF variation and predictability was performed for the structures studied. Experimental results show that the AVF exhibits significant variations across different structures and workloads, and is influenced by multiple microarchitectural metrics and their interactions. Besides, AVFs of SPEC2K floating point programs exhibit better predictability than SPEC2K integer programs.