Dynamic neutron testing of Dynamically Reconfigurable Processing Modules architecture

Author

Sterpone, L. ; Sabena, D. ; Ullah, Abrar ; Porrmann, Mario ; Hagemeyer, Jens ; Ilstad, Jorgen

Author_Institution

DAUIN, Politec. di Torino, Turin, Italy

fYear

2013

fDate

24-27 June 2013

Firstpage

184

Lastpage

188

Abstract

The usage of reconfigurable systems is of increasingly interest for space and avionic applications. In the present work we propose an implementation flow for hardening Dynamically Reconfigurable Processing Module (DRPM) Systems implemented on modern SRAM-based FPGAs. We also report neutron radiation testing campaigns when the system is implemented on Xilinx Virtex-4 and Virtex-5 SRAM-based FPGAs. Experimental results performed by heavy-ions radiation experiments and fault injection campaigns demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Keywords

SRAM chips; aerospace computing; field programmable gate arrays; DRPM system; SRAM-based FPGA; Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGA; Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA; avionic application; dynamic neutron testing; dynamically reconfigurable processing module architecture; fault injection campaign; field programmable gate array; heavy-ions radiation experiment; space application; static random access memory; Circuit faults; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Neutrons; Radiation hardening (electronics); Routing; Testing; Neutron Radiation Testing; SRAM-based FPGAs; Single Event Upsets;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS), 2013 NASA/ESA Conference on

Conference_Location

Torino

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AHS.2013.6604244

Filename

6604244