Equivalent Experiments Based Prediction Methods for Embedded Software Error due to Electrostatic Discharge

Abstract

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) related embedded software error is a critical issue for electronic products and is hard to discover in the early stage of product development. This paper categorizes different embedded software errors at first, and then presents several detection methods to find precursors of these software errors. By discussing the methodology, the applicability of each method is given, in terms of application scenarios and limitations.

Keywords

• embedded software testing
• electro-static discharge
• design of experiments
• wifi