Dynamically adaptive scrubbing mechanism for improved reliability in reconfigurable embedded systems

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Beitragende

  • Rui Santos - , National University of Singapore (Autor:in)
  • Shyamsundar Venkataraman - , National University of Singapore (Autor:in)
  • Akash Kumar - , National University of Singapore (Autor:in)

Abstract

Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) reconfigurable devices have been recognized as one of the most suitable processing devices to be applied in satellites, since they can satisfy and combine their most important requirements, namely processing performance, reconfigurability and low cost. However, COTS reconfigurable devices, in particular Static-RAM Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAS), can be affected by cosmic radiation, compromising the overall satellite reliability. Scrubbing has been proposed as a mechanism to repair faults in configuration memory. However, the current scrubbing mechanisms are predominantly static and unable to adapt to run-time variations in applications. In this paper, a dynamically adaptive scrubbing mechanism is proposed. Through a window-based scrubbing scheduling, this mechanism adapts the scrubbing process to the reconfigurations and modifications on the FPGA user-design at runtime. Conducted simulation experiments show the feasibility and the efficiency of the proposed solution in terms of system reliability and memory overhead.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel2015 52nd ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC 2015
Herausgeber (Verlag)IEEE, New York [u. a.]
ISBN (elektronisch)9781450335201
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 24 Juli 2015
Peer-Review-StatusJa
Extern publiziertJa

Publikationsreihe

ReiheDAC: Design Automation Conference
Band2015-July
ISSN0738-100X

Konferenz

Titel52nd ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC 2015
Dauer8 - 12 Juni 2015
StadtSan Francisco
LandUSA/Vereinigte Staaten