The increasing transient fault rate will necessitate onchip fault tolerance techniques in future processors. The speed gap between the processor and the memory is also increasing,...
: Watchdogs are a well-known and widespread means to increase the safety of microprocessors. The programmer or the compiler must insert instructions to reset the watchdog. If the p...
Recent software systems contain a lot of functions to provide various services. According to this tendency, software testing becomes more difficult than before and cost of testing...
Technology scaling in integrated circuits has consistently provided dramatic performance improvements in modern microprocessors. However, increasing device counts and decreasing o...
The performance requirements for contemporary microprocessors are increasing as rapidly as their number of applications grows. By accelerating the clock, performance can be gained...