AN 866: Mitigating and Debugging Single Event Upsets in Quartus Prime Standard Edition - Describes mitigating and debugging Single Event Upsets (SEU). - 2021-09-28

1. Mitigating Single Event Upset
1.1. Failure Rates
1.2. Mitigating SEU Effects in Embedded User RAM
1.2.1. Configuring RAM to Enable ECC
1.3. Mitigating SEU Effects in Configuration RAM
1.4. Internal Scrubbing
1.5. SEU Recovery
1.5.1. Planning for SEU Recovery
1.5.2. Designating the Sensitivity of the Design Hierarchy
1.5.2.1. Hierarchy Tagging
1.5.2.2. Using Partitions to Specify Logic Sensitivity ID
1.5.3. Advanced SEU Detection IP Core
1.5.3.1. On-Chip Sensitivity Processor
1.5.3.2. External Sensitivity Processor
1.6. Quartus Prime Software SEU FIT Reports
1.6.1. SEU FIT Parameters Report
1.6.2. Projected SEU FIT by Component Usage Report
1.6.2.1. Component FIT Rates
1.6.2.2. Raw FIT
1.6.2.3. Utilized FIT
1.6.2.3.1. Comparing .smh Critical Bits Report to Utilized Bit Count
1.6.2.3.2. Considerations for Small Designs
1.6.2.4. Mitigated FIT
1.6.2.5. Architectural Vulnerability Factor
1.6.3. Enabling the Projected SEU FIT by Component Usage Report
1.7. Triple-Module Redundancy
1.8. Evaluating a System's Response to Functional Upsets
1.9. CRAM Error Detection Settings Reference
1.10. Document Revision History
2. Debugging Single Event Upset Using the Fault Injection Debugger
2.1. Single Event Upset Mitigation
2.2. Hardware and Software Requirements
2.3. Using the Fault Injection Debugger and IP Core
2.3.1. Instantiating the IP Core
2.3.1.1. About the EMR Unloader IP Core
2.3.1.2. About the Advanced SEU Detection IP Core
2.3.2. Defining Fault Injection Areas
2.3.2.1. Performing Hierarchy Tagging
2.3.2.2. About SMH Files
2.3.3. Using the Fault Injection Debugger
2.3.3.1. Configuring Your Device and the Fault Injection Debugger
2.3.3.2. Constraining Regions for Fault Injection
2.3.3.3. Specifying Error Types
2.3.3.4. Injecting Errors
2.3.3.5. Recording Errors
2.3.3.6. Clearing Injected Errors
2.3.4. Command-Line Interface
2.3.4.1. Targeted Fault Injection Feature
2.3.4.1.1. Specifying an Error List From the Command Line
2.3.4.1.2. Specifying an Error List From Prompt Mode
2.3.4.1.3. Determining CRAM Bit Locations
2.3.4.2. Advanced Command-Line Options: ASD Regions and Error Type Weighting
2.4. Document Revision History

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