Proceedings of The Eighth IEEE International On-Line Testing Workshop (IOLTW'02)
An Architecture for Self-Healing Digital Systems
Isle of Bendor, France
July 08-July 10
ISBN: 0-7695-1641-6
The use of very deep submicron technology makes VLSI-based digital systems more susceptible to transient or soft errors, and thus compromises their reliability. This paper proposes an architecture inspired by the human immune system that allows tolerance of such errors.