• DocumentCode
    1744888
  • Title

    Fault-tolerance scheme for an RNS MAC: performance and cost analysis

  • Author

    Preethy, A.P. ; Radhakrishnan, D. ; Omondi, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Georgia State Univ., Atlanta, GA, USA
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    6-9 May 2001
  • Firstpage
    717
  • Abstract
    Residue number systems (RNS) are especially useful in applications in which fault-tolerance is a requirement. Accordingly, this paper discusses a novel and elegant fault-tolerance scheme incorporated into a multiply-accumulate (MAC) unit based on RNS. The fault-tolerance is achieved by using inexpensive forward conversion procedures. The cost and performance are analyzed with respect to other designs, and the analysis indicates superior cost:performance measure for our design
  • Keywords
    fault tolerant computing; multiplying circuits; residue number systems; RNS MAC; cost analysis; cost:performance measure; fault-tolerance scheme; forward conversion procedures; multiply-accumulate unit; residue number systems; Application software; Arithmetic; Cathode ray tubes; Computer science; Costs; Equations; Error correction; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Performance analysis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Circuits and Systems, 2001. ISCAS 2001. The 2001 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Sydney, NSW
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6685-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISCAS.2001.921171
  • Filename
    921171