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ICCAD
2007
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Enhancing design robustness with reliability-aware resynthesis and logic simulation
While circuit density and power efficiency increase with each major advance in IC technology, reliability with respect to soft errors tends to decrease. Current solutions to this...
Smita Krishnaswamy, Stephen Plaza, Igor L. Markov,...
ASPLOS
2004
ACM
14 years 27 days ago
Fingerprinting: bounding soft-error detection latency and bandwidth
Recent studies have suggested that the soft-error rate in microprocessor logic will become a reliability concern by 2010. This paper proposes an efficient error detection techniqu...
Jared C. Smolens, Brian T. Gold, Jangwoo Kim, Baba...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Speculative instruction validation for performance-reliability trade-off
With reducing feature size, increasing chip capacity, and increasing clock speed, microprocessors are becoming increasingly susceptible to transient (soft) errors. Redundant multi...
Sumeet Kumar, Aneesh Aggarwal
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
DeCoR: A Delayed Commit and Rollback mechanism for handling inductive noise in processors
Increases in peak current draw and reductions in the operating voltages of processors continue to amplify the importance of dealing with voltage fluctuations in processors. Noise-...
Meeta Sharma Gupta, Krishna K. Rangan, Michael D. ...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
130views Hardware» more  ISCA 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Dynamic prediction of architectural vulnerability from microarchitectural state
Transient faults due to particle strikes are a key challenge in microprocessor design. Driven by exponentially increasing transistor counts, per-chip faults are a growing burden. ...
Kristen R. Walcott, Greg Humphreys, Sudhanva Gurum...