An analytical method for estimating SET propagation

A Probabilistic Approach to Diagnose SETs

“…A simplification of the method in [5] is described. The simplification is due to the fact that in diagnosis we know precisely when the error pulse occur within the latching window at only one observable point.…”

“…As in our previous work [4], [5], the SET effect at an observable point is defined as the product of the probability of generating an SET at a gate at time t and the probability to propagate the generated SET to the observable point. The SET generation probability was proposed in our previous work [4].…”

“…[1], [4], [5], [7], [8], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16] among others, determine propagation probability as the probability by which the SET generated at the gate of strike propagates to an observable point. They cannot provide probabilistic arguments when the SET propagates to more than one observable points since the observed errors are not independent [2].…”

“…Subsequently, a novel diagnosis method quickly identifies the possible location and time that the SET is generated. We include arguments as in [5] to consider electrical attenuation in SET propagation. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.…”

“…The paper is organized as follows. Section II provides with preliminaries necessary to outline our earlier methods in [4], [5] that uses functions to calculate the probability of SET propagation to a single observable point. Section III computes the probability of SET propagation to several observable points at pre-determined times.…”