7th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'06) Logic SER Reduction through Flipflop Redesign San Jose, California March 27-March 29 ISBN: 0-7695-2523-7
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ISQED.2006.82
In this paper, we present a new flipflop sizing scheme that efficiently immunizes combinational logic circuits from the effects of radiation induced single event transients (SET). The proposed technique leverages the effect of temporal masking by selectively increasing the length of the latching windows associated with the flipflops thereby preventing faulty transients from being registered. We propose an effective flipflop sizing scheme and construct a variety of flipflop variants that function as low-pass filters for SETs and reduce the soft error rates (SER) of combinational circuits. In contrast to previously proposed flipflop designs that rely on logic duplication and complicated circuit design styles, our method provides a simple yet highly effective mechanism for logic SER reduction while incurring very small overheads in both delay (about 5 FO4) and power (about 5%). Experimental results at the circuit level on a wide range of benchmarks show 1000X reductions in SER for small increases in circuit delay and power.
Citation:
Vivek Joshi, Rajeev R. Rao, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, "Logic SER Reduction through Flipflop Redesign," isqed, pp.611-616, 7th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'06), 2006 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||