Title :
Variations on the theme for designing fault-tolerant systolic array architectures
Author :
Esonu, M.O. ; Al-Khalili, A.J. ; Al-Khalili, D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., R. Mil. Coll., Kingston, Ont., Canada
Abstract :
An approach is presented for designing highly reliable and optimal fault-tolerant systolic array architectures. Redundant computations are introduced in the original algorithm by creating different versions of the algorithm. In these methods, the spatial redundancy technique is used to achieve fault tolerance in the fault-tolerant systolic architectures. The schemes can tolerate all single permanent and temporary faults in the array and a majority of the multiple fault patterns
Keywords :
fault tolerant computing; systolic arrays; VLSI; algorithm; fault-tolerant systolic array architectures; multiple fault patterns; permanent faults; redundant computations; spatial redundancy technique; temporary faults; Algorithm design and analysis; Computer architecture; Educational institutions; Fault tolerance; Merging; Military computing; Redundancy; Systolic arrays; Topology; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, 1991., IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on
Conference_Location :
Victoria, BC
Print_ISBN :
0-87942-638-1
DOI :
10.1109/PACRIM.1991.160693