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PRDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Power-Performance Trade-Off of a Dependable Multicore Processor
As deep submicron technologies are advanced, new challenges, such as power consumption and soft errors, are emerging. A naïve technique, which utilizes emerging multicore process...
Toshinori Sato, Toshimasa Funaki
IOLTS
2007
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
On Derating Soft Error Probability Based on Strength Filtering
— Soft errors caused by ionizing radiation have emerged as a major concern for current generation of CMOS technologies and the trend is expected to get worse. A significant frac...
Alodeep Sanyal, Sandip Kundu
IEEEPACT
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Unified Architectural Support for Soft-Error Protection or Software Bug Detection
In this paper we propose a unified architectural support that can be used flexibly for either soft-error protection or software bug detection. Our approach is based on dynamically...
Martin Dimitrov, Huiyang Zhou
DDECS
2007
IEEE
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An Experimental Analysis of SEU Sensitiveness on System Knowledge-based Hardening Techniques
Logic Soft Errors caused by radiation are a major concern when working with circuits that need to operate in harsh environments, such as space or avionics applications, where soft ...
Oscar Ruano, Pilar Reyes, Juan Antonio Maestro, Lu...
DATE
2007
IEEE
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Soft error rate analysis for sequential circuits
Due to reduction in device feature size and supply voltage, the sensitivity to radiation induced transient faults (soft errors) of digital systems increases dramatically. Intensiv...
Natasa Miskov-Zivanov, Diana Marculescu
DATE
2007
IEEE
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Utilization of SECDED for soft error and variation-induced defect tolerance in caches
Combination of SECDED with a redundancy technique can effectively tolerate a high variation-induced defect rate in future processes. However, while a defective cell in a block can...
Luong Dinh Hung, Hidetsugu Irie, Masahiro Goshima,...
DSD
2009
IEEE
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Robustness Check for Multiple Faults Using Formal Techniques
Feature sizes in VLSI circuits are steadily shrinking. This results in increasing susceptibility to soft errors, e.g. due to environmental radiation. Precautions against soft error...
Stefan Frehse, Görschwin Fey, André S&...
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Design as you see FIT: System-level soft error analysis of sequential circuits
Soft errors in combinational and sequential elements of digital circuits are an increasing concern as a result of technology scaling. Several techniques for gate and latch hardeni...
Daniel Holcomb, Wenchao Li, Sanjit A. Seshia
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Static analysis to mitigate soft errors in register files
—With continuous technology scaling, soft errors are becoming an increasingly important design concern even for earth-bound applications. While compiler approaches have the poten...
Jongeun Lee, Aviral Shrivastava
HPCA
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Soft error vulnerability aware process variation mitigation
As transistor process technology approaches the nanometer scale, process variation significantly affects the design and optimization of high performance microprocessors. Prior stu...
Xin Fu, Tao Li, José A. B. Fortes