Fast lossless image compression with Radiation Hardening by hardware/software co-design on platform FPGAs

Motivated by the proposed NASA HyspIRI mission, our work improves existing Radiation Hardening by Software (RHBSW) techniques with FPGA Fabric Checkpoint/Restart (F2CPR) to bring enhanced hardware/software co-designed fault tolerance to commercial FPGA devices. We evaluate our approach on Fast Lossless (FL) image compression prediction for hyperspectral imagery in order to meet real-time performance requirements that cannot be achieved with aging radiation hardened devices. We report results across several metrics including resource utilization, performance, and an analysis of the vulnerability to Single Event Upsets (SEU) through the use of a hardware based fault injector. Results show low performance overhead (4-8%) achieving a speedup of 11.28× with a hardware accelerated implementation.