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Online Evaluation of
System Health State
Hanieh Jafarzadeh

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Hans-Joachim Wunderlich

Institute of Computer Architecture and Computer Engineering (ITI)
State of the Health

• State of the health is:

• A prediction of how long the system will function correctly
• A prediction of the system's ability to meet future performance expectations

Goes beyond just monitoring the system

Decrease in the cost and unscheduled downtime
Support of Silicon Life cycle Management (SLM)

Main Goal :

Online evaluation of system health state during the whole lifecycle

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State of the art

• Using placed monitors and reliability sensors

• process/voltage/temperature (PVT) sensors
• structural and functional monitors

Additional aging problem

Additional lifetime challenge
Additional workload at system

The proposed solution:

Online evaluation of system health by exploiting the existing DFT infrastructures

Health State indicators

State of the Health is an ‘’estimation" not an absolute measurement

Measure some health indicators and estimate health state according to them

Health State indicators are

• Power consumption\ current
• Heat
• Timing Behavior

Methods:
• Monitor the changes in the timing behaviour over time
• Monitor the changes over different voltages
The proposed Method

Distinguish
Track any Find the source
between
changes on the of behaviour Predict the
normal and
circuit changes health state
abnormal
behaviour
changes

• Classification • Online testing

• How to get the traces of • Online Diagnosis
method is needed is needed
behaviour over time is needed to find
• How to store the traces ? the sources of
changes

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State of the Health Evaluation Challenges

Challenges:

• Precise models are needed for reliability threats

• Delay faults may not cause malfunction under normal operating conditions

• Identify normal and abnormal timing behavior considering AVFS

• Normal behavior changes based on expected distributions
• Abnormal behavior changes based on defect behavior

• Extract information from BIST signature

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Thank you!

Hanieh Jafarzadeh

e-mail :Hanieh.jafarzadeh@iti.uni-stuttgart.de
Phone :+49 711 685-88407

University of Stuttgart
Institute of Computer Architecture and Computer Engineering (ITI)

Pfaffenwaldring 47, 70569Stuttgart