Continued advancements in fabrication technology and reductions in feature size create challenges in maintaining both manufacturing yield rates and long-term reliability of device...
Premkishore Shivakumar, Stephen W. Keckler, Charle...
Scaling feature size improves processor performance but increases each device’s susceptibility to defects (i.e., hard errors). As a result, fabrication technology must improve s...
Device and interconnect fabrics at the nanoscale will have a density of defects and susceptibility to transient faults far exceeding those of current silicon technologies. In this...
Andrey V. Zykov, Elias Mizan, Margarida F. Jacome,...
A new approach is proposed that exploits repetition inherent in programs to provide low-overhead transient fault protection in a processor. Programs repeatedly execute the same in...
As SRAM devices are scaled down, the number of variation-induced defective memory cells increases rapidly. Combination of ECC, particularly SECDED, with a redundancy technique can...