Title :
Asynchronous design: fault robustness and security characteristics
Author :
Renaudin, Marc ; Monnet, Yannick
Author_Institution :
TIMA Lab., Grenoble
Abstract :
The problem of fault tolerance and fault resistance is becoming more and more important in all application fields. In this context, asynchronous designs provide inherent properties that make them attractive to design robust systems. Moreover, hardening techniques can be applied at the design time to improve their fault resistance with low area, speed and power costs. This work presents the latest characteristics analysis and conclusions on the potential of asynchronous circuits for both security and safety designs. It clearly demonstrates that the asynchronous technology enables the design of efficient fault tolerant/resistant integrated circuits
Keywords :
asynchronous circuits; fault tolerance; integrated circuit design; logic design; radiation hardening (electronics); asynchronous design; characteristics analysis; fault resistant integrated circuits; fault robustness; fault tolerant integrated circuit; hardening techniques; safety designs; security characteristics; security design; Asynchronous circuits; Circuit faults; Clocks; Costs; Delay systems; Electrical fault detection; Fault tolerance; Logic circuits; Robustness; Transient analysis;
Conference_Titel :
On-Line Testing Symposium, 2006. IOLTS 2006. 12th IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Lake Como
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2620-9
DOI :
10.1109/IOLTS.2006.11
