Title
Analyzing the Effectiveness of a Frame-Level Redundancy Scrubbing Technique for SRAM-based FPGAs
Date Issued
01 December 2015
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Universidad Federal de Río Grande del Sur
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Radiation effects such as soft errors are the major threat to the reliability of SRAM-based FPGAs. This work analyzes the effectiveness in correcting soft errors of a novel scrubbing technique using internal frame redundancy called Frame-level Redundancy Scrubbing (FLR-scrubbing). This correction technique can be implemented in a coarse grain TMR design. The FLR-scrubbing technique was implemented on a mid-size Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA device used as a case study. The FLR-scrubbing technique was tested under neutron radiation and fault injection. Implementation results demonstrated minimum area and energy consumption overhead when compared to other techniques. The time to repair the fault is also improved by using the Internal Configuration Access Port (ICAP). Neutron radiation test results demonstrated that the proposed technique is suitable for correcting accumulated SEUs and MBUs.
Start page
3080
End page
3087
Volume
62
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84961814712
Source
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
ISSN of the container
00189499
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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