FAULT OVERRUN DETECTION FEATURE

Techniques are disclosed for a fault monitor to determine that no fault has been lost. The fault monitor may distinguish between critical and non-critical faults without the risk of missing a critical fault. The fault monitor may detect a new fault event from a fault source and may set a fault overrun flag when the new fault event is detected while an existing fault event from the fault source is being processed. When the fault monitor receives a fault acknowledgement to indicate completion of processing of the existing fault event, the fault monitor may generate a request to process the new fault event as an overrun fault based on the fault overrun flag is set. The fault monitor may generate a request to process the new fault event as a non-overrun fault when the new fault event is detected without an existing fault event from the fault source being processed.