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Eleventh IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS'06)
Single-Event Upset Analysis and Protection in High Speed Circuits
Southampton, United Kingdom
May 21-May 21
ISBN: 0-7695-2566-0
Mohammad Hosseinabady, University of Tehran, Iran
Pejman Lotfi-Kamran, University of Tehran, Iran
Giorgio Di Natale, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Stefano Di Carlo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Alfredo Benso, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Paolo Prinetto, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
The effect of Single-Event Transients (SETs) (at a combinational node of a design) on the system reliability is becoming a big concern for ICs manufactured using advanced technologies. An SET at a node of combinational part may cause a transient pulse at the input of a flip-flop and consequently is latched in the flip-flop and generates a soft-error. When an SET conjoined with a transition at a node along a critical path of the combinational part of a design, a transient delay fault may occur at the input of a flip-flop. On the other hand, increasing pipeline depth and using low power techniques such as multi-level power supply, and multi-threshold transistor convert almost all paths in a circuit to critical ones. Thus, studying the behavior of the SET in these kinds of circuits needs special attention. This paper studies the dynamic behavior of a circuit with massive critical paths in the presence of an SET. We also propose a novel flip-flop architecture to mitigate the effects of such SETs in combinational circuits. Furthermore, the proposed architecture can tolerant a Single Event Upset (SEU) caused by particle strike on the internal nodes of a flip-flop.
Citation:
Mohammad Hosseinabady, Pejman Lotfi-Kamran, Giorgio Di Natale, Stefano Di Carlo, Alfredo Benso, Paolo Prinetto, "Single-Event Upset Analysis and Protection in High Speed Circuits," ets, pp.29-34, Eleventh IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS'06), 2006
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