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Opportunistic Transient-Fault Detection

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Opportunistic Transient-Fault Detection
CMOS scaling increases susceptibility of microprocessors to transient faults. Most current proposals for transient-fault detection use full redundancy to achieve perfect coverage while incurring significant performance degradation. However, most commodity systems do not need or provide perfect coverage. A recent paper explores this leniency to reduce the soft-error rate of the issue queue during L2 misses while incurring minimal performance degradation. Whereas the previous paper reduces soft-error rate without using any redundancy, we target better coverage while incurring similarly-minimal performance degradation by opportunistically using redundancy. We propose two semi-complementary techniques, called partial explicit redundancy (PER) and implicit redundancy through reuse (IRTR), to explore the trade-off between soft-error rate and performance. PER opportunistically exploits low-ILP phases and L2 misses to introduce explicit redundancy with minimal performance degradation. Becaus...
Mohamed A. Gomaa, T. N. Vijaykumar
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Type Conference
Year 2005
Where ISCA
Authors Mohamed A. Gomaa, T. N. Vijaykumar
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