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Fault Tolerant Approaches to Nanoelectronic Programmable Logic Arrays

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Fault Tolerant Approaches to Nanoelectronic Programmable Logic Arrays
Programmable logic arrays (PLA), which can implement arbitrary logic functions in a two-level logic form, are promising as platforms for nanoelectronic logic due to their highly regular structure compatible with the nano crossbar architectures. Reliability is an important challenge as far as nanoelectronic devices are concerned. Consequently, it is necessary to focus on the fault tolerance aspects of nanoelectronic PLAs to ensure their viability as a foundation for nanoelectronic systems. In this paper, we investigate two types of fault tolerance techniques for nanoelectronic device based PLAs, focusing at the online faults occurring at the cross-points of nano devices. We develop a scheme to precisely locate the faults online, as this is a crucial step for efficient online reconfiguration based fault tolerance schemes. We also propose a tautology based fault masking scheme. We demonstrate that these two types of fault tolerance schemes developed for nano PLAs significantly improve...
Wenjing Rao, Alex Orailoglu, Ramesh Karri
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Type Conference
Year 2007
Where DSN
Authors Wenjing Rao, Alex Orailoglu, Ramesh Karri
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