Title
Energy efficient frame-level redundancy scrubbing technique for SRAM-based FPGAs
Date Issued
31 August 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Kastensmidt F.
Reis R.
Universidad Federal de Río Grande del Sur
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Reliability is a major design constraint for critical applications. SRAM-based FPGAs are attractive to critical applications due to their high performance and flexibility. However, they are high susceptible to radiation effects such as soft errors. Memory scrubbing is an effective method to correct soft errors in SRAM memories but it imposes an overhead in terms of logic area and energy consumption. This work proposes a novel scrubbing technique using internal frame redundancy called Frame-level Redundancy Scrubbing (FLR-scrubbing) with minimum energy consumption overhead without compromising the correction capabilities. As a case study, the FLR-scrubbing controller was implemented on a mid-size Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA device, occupying 8% of available slices and consumes six times less energy per scrubbed frame than a classic blind scrubber.
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la computación Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84962588986
ISBN of the container
9781467375016
Conference
2015 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems, AHS 2015
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