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Ninth Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC'02)
Highly Fault-Tolerant FPGA Processor by Degrading Strategy
Tsukuba, Japan
December 16-December 18
ISBN: 0-7695-1852-4
Yousuke Nakamura, University of Tokyo
Kei Hiraki, University of Tokyo
The importance of highly fault-tolerant computing systems has widely been recognized. In this paper, we propose FPGA architecture with degrading strategy to increase fault-tolerance in a CPU. Previously,duplication and substitution methods have been proposed, but former methods waste redundant circuits and later methods increase computing speed as faults occur. We propose a re-constitution method with FPGA technology. Using our method, execution speed of the CPU gradually decreases as permanent faults occur.The CPU consists of Functional Blocks FB), that is re-configurable logic blocks. When a fault occures, the broken FB is discarded. As the number of valid FB decreases, function units of it is scaled down, therefore, exection time increases. In our simulation, speed degradation is less than 100% when 70% of whole FBs are broken.Compared with previous methods, speed degradation is smaller in case that many permanent faults occure.
Citation:
Yousuke Nakamura, Kei Hiraki, "Highly Fault-Tolerant FPGA Processor by Degrading Strategy," prdc, pp.75, Ninth Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC'02), 2002
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