Reliability Analysis of Operating Systems and Software Stack for Embedded Systems

In this paper, we investigate how the presence of a general purpose operating system influences the reliability of modern embedded Systems-on-Chips (SoCs). We experimentally study the difference in the neutron-induced error rate of SoCs when executing the application bare to the metal (i.e., without an underlying operating system) and on top of the Linux kernel. Our analysis demonstrates that Linu...