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| Ibrahim Karsli, Pedro Reviriego, Fatih Balli, Oguz Ergin, Juan Antonio Maestro, "Enhanced Duplication: a Technique to Correct Soft Errors in Narrow Values," IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, vol. 99, no. 2, pp. , , 5555. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/L-CA.2012.6, author = {Ibrahim Karsli and Pedro Reviriego and Fatih Balli and Oguz Ergin and Juan Antonio Maestro}, title = {Enhanced Duplication: a Technique to Correct Soft Errors in Narrow Values}, journal ={IEEE Computer Architecture Letters}, volume = {99}, number = {2}, issn = {1556-6056}, year = {5555}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/L-CA.2012.6}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - CONF JO - IEEE Computer Architecture Letters TI - Enhanced Duplication: a Technique to Correct Soft Errors in Narrow Values IS - 2 SN - 1556-6056 SP EP EPD - A1 - Ibrahim Karsli, A1 - Pedro Reviriego, A1 - Fatih Balli, A1 - Oguz Ergin, A1 - Juan Antonio Maestro, PY - 5555 KW - Redundant design KW - Error-checking KW - Redundant design KW - Redundant design VL - 99 JA - IEEE Computer Architecture Letters ER - | |||
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/L-CA.2012.6
Soft errors are transient errors that can alter the logic value of a register bit causing data corruption. They can be caused by radiation particles such as neutrons or alpha particles. Narrow values are commonly found in the data consumed or produced by processors. Several techniques have recently been proposed to exploit the unused bits in narrow values to protect them against soft errors. These techniques replicate the narrow value over the unused register bits such that errors can be detected when the value is duplicated and corrected when the value is tripled. In this letter, a technique that can correct errors when the narrow value is only duplicated is presented. The proposed approach stores a modified duplicate of the narrow value such that errors on the original value and the duplicate can be distinguished and therefore corrected. The scheme has been implemented at the circuit level to evaluate its speed and also at the architectural level to assess the benefits in correcting soft errors. The results show that the scheme is significantly faster than a parity check and can improve substantially the number of soft errors that are corrected compared to existing techniques.
Index Terms:
Redundant design, Error-checking, Redundant design, Redundant design
Citation:
Ibrahim Karsli, Pedro Reviriego, Fatih Balli, Oguz Ergin, Juan Antonio Maestro, "Enhanced Duplication: a Technique to Correct Soft Errors in Narrow Values," IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, 26 April 2012. IEEE computer Society Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society, <http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/L-CA.2012.6>
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