TY - GEN
T1 - Increasing FPGA resilience against soft errors using task duplication
AU - Chen, G.
AU - Li, F.
AU - Kandemir, M.
AU - Demirkiran, I.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Reconfigurable computing systems are becoming increasingly widespread as they bring the flexibility of programmable systems and approach the performance of ASICs. While the prior research on FPGAs mainly studied issues such as performance, power, and area optimization, reliability related issues have not taken much attention. However, with increasing soft error rates, providing resilience to soft errors in FPGA based embedded platforms is becoming an increasingly important issue. This paper proposes an OS-directed task duplication scheme for increasing reliability by providing resilience against soft errors. The idea is to exploit the unused portions of the FPGA space to schedule duplicates of active tasks. The outputs of the primary and duplicate tasks are compared to check for the existence of soft errors.
AB - Reconfigurable computing systems are becoming increasingly widespread as they bring the flexibility of programmable systems and approach the performance of ASICs. While the prior research on FPGAs mainly studied issues such as performance, power, and area optimization, reliability related issues have not taken much attention. However, with increasing soft error rates, providing resilience to soft errors in FPGA based embedded platforms is becoming an increasingly important issue. This paper proposes an OS-directed task duplication scheme for increasing reliability by providing resilience against soft errors. The idea is to exploit the unused portions of the FPGA space to schedule duplicates of active tasks. The outputs of the primary and duplicate tasks are compared to check for the existence of soft errors.
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U2 - 10.1145/1120725.1121071
DO - 10.1145/1120725.1121071
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84861425819
SN - 0780387368
SN - 9780780387362
T3 - Proceedings of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC
SP - 924
EP - 927
BT - Proceedings of the 2005 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC 2005
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2005 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC 2005
Y2 - 18 January 2005 through 21 January 2005
ER -