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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
Vivek Joshi, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
Rajeev R. Rao, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
David Blaauw, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Dennis Sylvester, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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
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