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TCAD
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
General Methodology for Soft-Error-Aware Power Optimization Using Gate Sizing
Power consumption has emerged as the premier and most constraining aspect in modern microprocessor and application-specific designs. Gate sizing has been shown to be one of the mos...
Foad Dabiri, Ani Nahapetian, Tammara Massey, Miodr...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Using Register Lifetime Predictions to Protect Register Files against Soft Errors
— Device scaling and large integration increase the vulnerability of microprocessors to transient errors. One of the structures where errors can be most harmful is the register ï...
Pablo Montesinos, Wei Liu, Josep Torrellas
ICCD
2008
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Characterization and design of sequential circuit elements to combat soft error
- This paper performs analysis and design of latches and flip-flops while considering the effect of event upsets caused by energetic particle hits. First it is shown that the conve...
Hamed Abrishami, Safar Hatami, Massoud Pedram
IOLTS
2008
IEEE
102views Hardware» more  IOLTS 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
Integrating Scan Design and Soft Error Correction in Low-Power Applications
— Error correcting coding is the dominant technique to achieve acceptable soft-error rates in memory arrays. In many modern circuits, the number of memory elements in the random ...
Michael E. Imhof, Hans-Joachim Wunderlich, Christi...
EMSOFT
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Compiler-guided register reliability improvement against soft errors
With the scaling of technology, transient errors caused by external particle strikes have become a critical challenge for microprocessor design. As embedded processors are widely ...
Jun Yan, Wei Zhang