Title :
Dependability evaluation of transient fault effects in reconfigurable compute fabric devices
Author :
Sterpone, L. ; Violante, M.
Author_Institution :
Dip. Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino
Abstract :
Reconfigurable compute fabrics (RCFs) are cellular architectures in which an array of computing elements and a configurable interconnection fabric are combined with a general-purpose processor. RCFs can play an important role in safety- or mission-critical applications, provided that a clear understanding of their dependability is available. In this paper, we report an evaluation of the effects induced by transient faults within the resources of an RCF Motorola MRC6011 and we resorted to extensive fault injection to investigate the effects of transient faults
Keywords :
application specific integrated circuits; fault simulation; integrated circuit reliability; integrated circuit testing; microprocessor chips; reconfigurable architectures; Motorola MRC6011; RCF; cellular architecture; computing array elements; dependability evaluation; fault injection; general-purpose processor; reconfigurable compute fabric devices; transient fault effects; Application specific integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Computer architecture; Computer interfaces; Costs; Fabrics; Finite impulse response filter; Manufacturing processes; Mission critical systems; Reduced instruction set computing;
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.2006.20
