Intel® Stratix® 10 SEU Mitigation User Guide

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1. Intel® Stratix® 10 SEU Mitigation Overview 2. Intel® Stratix® 10 Mitigation Techniques for CRAM 3. Secure Device Manager ECC Error Detection 4. Intel® Stratix® 10 SEU Mitigation Implementation Guides 5. Advanced SEU Detection Intel® FPGA IP References 6. Intel® Stratix® 10 Fault Injection Debugger References 7. Intel® Stratix® 10 SEU Mitigation User Guide Archives 8. Document Revision History for the Intel® Stratix® 10 SEU Mitigation User Guide
1. Intel® Stratix® 10 SEU Mitigation Overview x
1.1. SEU Mitigation Techniques for Intel® Stratix® 10 Devices 1.2. Configuration RAM 1.3. Memory Blocks Error Correction Code (ECC) Support 1.4. Secure Device Manager ECC Error 1.5. Triple-Module Redundancy 1.6. Failure Rates
2. Intel® Stratix® 10 Mitigation Techniques for CRAM x
2.1. CRAM Error Detection and Correction 2.2. Internal Scrubbing and Priority Scrubbing 2.3. SEU Sensitivity Processing 2.4. Designating the Sensitivity of the Design Hierarchy 2.5. Evaluating a System's Response to Functional Upsets
2.1. CRAM Error Detection and Correction x
2.1.1. Error Message Queue 2.1.2. SEU_ERROR Pin Behavior
2.2. Internal Scrubbing and Priority Scrubbing x
2.2.1. Internal Scrubbing 2.2.2. Priority Scrubbing
2.3. SEU Sensitivity Processing x
2.3.1. Advanced SEU Detection IP Core
2.3.1. Advanced SEU Detection IP Core x
2.3.1.1. Release Information for Advanced SEU Detection Intel® FPGA IP 2.3.1.2. On-Chip Lookup Sensitivity Processing 2.3.1.3. Off-Chip Lookup Sensitivity Processing 2.3.1.4. SMH Lookup
2.3.1.3. Off-Chip Lookup Sensitivity Processing x
2.3.1.3.1. Off-Chip Lookup Sensitivity Processing Operation Flow
2.3.1.4. SMH Lookup x
2.3.1.4.1. SMH Revision 4 File Format
2.4. Designating the Sensitivity of the Design Hierarchy x
2.4.1. Hierarchy Tagging
2.5. Evaluating a System's Response to Functional Upsets x
2.5.1. Intel® Quartus® Prime Fault Injection Debugger
3. Secure Device Manager ECC Error Detection x
3.1. SDM ECC Error Message Bits 3.2. SDM ECC Error Signals Behavior
4. Intel® Stratix® 10 SEU Mitigation Implementation Guides x
4.1. Setting SEU_ERROR Pin 4.2. Intel® Quartus® Prime SEU Software Settings 4.3. Enabling Priority Scrubbing 4.4. Performing Hierarchy Tagging 4.5. Programming Sensitivity Map Header File into Memory 4.6. Performing Lookup for Sensitivity Map Header 4.7. Using the Fault Injection Debugger 4.8. Analyzing SEU Errors Using Signal Tap 4.9. Intel® Quartus® Prime Software SEU FIT Reports
4.7. Using the Fault Injection Debugger x
4.7.1. Enabling the Fault Injection Debugger 4.7.2. Launching and Setting Up the Fault Injection Debugger 4.7.3. Configuring Your Device and the Fault Injection Debugger 4.7.4. Constraining Regions for Fault Injection 4.7.5. Injecting Errors 4.7.6. Injecting Double Adjacent Errors
4.7.5. Injecting Errors x
4.7.5.1. Injecting Errors to a Random Location 4.7.5.2. Injecting Errors to a Specific Location
4.7.6. Injecting Double Adjacent Errors x
4.7.6.1. Injecting Double Adjacent Errors: Command-Line Interface 4.7.6.2. Injecting Double Adjacent Errors: GUI with Tcl Console
4.9. Intel® Quartus® Prime Software SEU FIT Reports x
4.9.1. Enabling the Projected SEU FIT by Component Usage Report 4.9.2. SEU FIT Parameters Report 4.9.3. Projected SEU FIT by Component Usage Report
4.9.3. Projected SEU FIT by Component Usage Report x
4.9.3.1. Component FIT Rates 4.9.3.2. Raw FIT 4.9.3.3. Utilized FIT 4.9.3.4. Mitigated FIT 4.9.3.5. Architectural Vulnerability Factor
4.9.3.3. Utilized FIT x
4.9.3.3.1. Comparing .smh Critical Bits Report to Utilized Bit Count 4.9.3.3.2. Considerations for Small Designs
5. Advanced SEU Detection Intel® FPGA IP References x
5.1. Advanced SEU Detection Intel® FPGA IP Parameter Settings 5.2. Advanced SEU Detection Intel® FPGA IP Ports
6. Intel® Stratix® 10 Fault Injection Debugger References x
6.1. Fault Injection Debugger Interface Parameters 6.2. Fault Injection Debugger Command-Line Interface
1. Intel® Stratix® 10 SEU Mitigation Overview
2. Intel® Stratix® 10 Mitigation Techniques for CRAM
3. Secure Device Manager ECC Error Detection
4. Intel® Stratix® 10 SEU Mitigation Implementation Guides
5. Advanced SEU Detection Intel® FPGA IP References
6. Intel® Stratix® 10 Fault Injection Debugger References
7. Intel® Stratix® 10 SEU Mitigation User Guide Archives
8. Document Revision History for the Intel® Stratix® 10 SEU Mitigation User Guide

1.6. Failure Rates

The Soft Error Rate (SER) or SEU reliability is expressed in Failure in Time (FIT) units. One FIT unit is one soft error occurrence per billion hours of operation.

  • For example, a design with 5,000 FIT experiences a mean of 5,000 SEU events in one billion hours (or 114,155.25 years). Because SEU events are statistically independent, FIT is additive. If a single FPGA has 5,000 FIT, then ten FPGAs have 50,000 FIT (or 50K failures in 114,155.25 years).

Another reliability measurement is the mean time to failure (MTTF), which is the reciprocal of the FIT or 1/FIT.

  • For a FIT of 5,000 in standard units of failures per billion hours, MTTF is:

    1 ÷ (5,000 ÷ 1 Bh)=1 billion ÷ 5,000 = 200,000 hours = 22.83 years

SEU events follow a Poisson distribution and the cumulative distribution function (CDF) for mean time between failures (MTBF) is an exponential distribution. For more information about failure rate calculation, refer to the Intel FPGA Reliability Report.

Neutron SEU incidence varies by altitude, latitude, and other environmental factors. The Intel® Quartus® Prime software provides SEU FIT reports based on compiles for sea level in Manhattan, New York. The JESD89A specification defines the test parameters.

Tip: You can convert the data to other locations and altitudes using calculators, such as those at www.seutest.com. Additionally, you can adjust the SEU rates in your project by including the relative neutron flux (calculated at www.seutest.com) in your project's .qsf file.
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