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Cost effective FPGA probabilistic fault emulation

O. Boncalo, A. Amaricai, C. Spagnol, E. Popovici
2014 2014 NORCHIP  
This paper presents a cost effective FPGA fault emulation technique for probabilistic errors.  ...  For this purpose, the emulated fault injection (EFI) components proposed are a trade-off between the desire for speed/performance and the inherent physical device limitations of the FPGA.  ...  ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work has been supported by the Seventh Framework Program of European Union under Grant Agreement 309129, project i-Risc.  ... 
doi:10.1109/norchip.2014.7004710 dblp:conf/norchip/BoncaloASP14 fatcat:fvcvstm6kjg5tkkgxrgfxmk6yu

Probability aware fault-injection approach for SER estimation

Fabio B. Armelin, Lirida A. B. Naviner, Roberto d'Amore
2018 2018 IEEE 19th Latin-American Test Symposium (LATS)  
This approach enables the use of just one PRNG and a decoder for the entire device, instead of a pair 'PRNGcomparator' per element, leading to a significant reduction in logic blocks consumption.  ...  On the other hand, studies in the stochastic computing domain deal with a probabilistic faultinjection approach.  ...  The fault distribution is applied to the circuit under test (CUT) using an autonomous emulated fault-injection environment.  ... 
doi:10.1109/latw.2018.8349692 dblp:conf/latw/ArmelinNd18a fatcat:phr73o4dfvdahc7oxlshcm4gum

A confidence-driven model for error-resilient computing

Chia-Hsiang Chen, Yejoong Kim, Zhengya Zhang, D Blaauw, D Sylvester, H Naeimi, S Sandhu
2011 2011 Design, Automation & Test in Europe  
The performance and cost of the computing model are estimated using a 45 nm CMOS technology and the functionality is verified by FPGA-based emulation.  ...  The confidencedriven computing model adapts to the fluctuating error rates at the device substrate level to guarantee the reliability of computation at the system level.  ...  ACKLOWEDGEMENT The authors would like to thank Farhana Sheikh, Keith Bowman, Feng Xue, Tanay Karnik, Chris Ramming and Shekhar Borkar for guidance and suggestions.  ... 
doi:10.1109/date.2011.5763255 dblp:conf/date/ChenKZBSNS11 fatcat:yp3dxqw4frhszfn7tu3vejzua4

Design and Evaluation of Confidence-Driven Error-Resilient Systems

Chia-Hsiang Chen, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, Zhengya Zhang
2014 IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (vlsi) Systems  
The EC technique improves the system reliability by more than four orders of magnitude when errors are of short duration.  ...  Deeply scaled CMOS circuits are increasingly susceptible to transient faults and soft errors; emerging post-CMOS devices can be more vulnerable, sometimes exhibiting erratic errors of arbitrary duration  ...  ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors would like to thank Y. Kim for help implementing the CDC model and H. Naeimi, S. Sandhu, F. Sheikh, and K. Bowman for suggestions.  ... 
doi:10.1109/tvlsi.2013.2277351 fatcat:ni37vig4i5eozcd4kbyu7ymcxu

An FPGA-based framework for run-time injection and analysis of soft errors in microprocessors

M. Sauer, V. Tomashevich, J. Muller, M. Lewis, A. Spilla, I. Polian, B. Becker, W. Burgard
2011 2011 IEEE 17th International On-Line Testing Symposium  
State-of-the-art nanoscale manufacturing technologies are more vulnerable to soft errors.  ...  While the framework is applicable to arbitrary software, we demonstrate its usage by characterizing soft errors effects on several software filters used in aviation for probabilistic sensor data fusion  ...  [20] discuss various types of fault injection techniques for medium-size non-programmable circuits.  ... 
doi:10.1109/iolts.2011.5993836 dblp:conf/iolts/SauerTMLSPBB11 fatcat:zunt7c7mobd47frs2hrmtjcjry

Fault tolerant design for low power hierarchical search motion estimation algorithms

Charvi Dhoot, Vincent J. Mooney, Shubhajit Roy Chowdhury, Lap Pui Chau
2011 2011 IEEE/IFIP 19th International Conference on VLSI and System-on-Chip  
Furthermore, a 1.8 dB improvement in PSNR under the same energy savings of 70% for both algorithms is shown establishing the superior resilience of the proposed algorithm to probabilistic computing over  ...  With the fault tolerant algorithm design (MC-TSS) proposed in this paper, we show that energy savings that can be realized with probabilistic computing increase to 70% versus 57% with the conventional  ...  We use a different noise model that emulates hardware faults such as false bit flipping due to thermal noise possible in future CMOS technology nodes.  ... 
doi:10.1109/vlsisoc.2011.6081649 dblp:conf/vlsi/DhootMCC11 fatcat:57kg33x7i5g4nm4orzgtczffba

Interval-Valued Reduced Ensemble Learning Based Fault Detection and Diagnosis Techniques for Uncertain Grid-Connected PV Systems

Khaled Dhibi, Majdi Mansouri, Kamaleldin Abodayeh, Kais Bouzrara, Hazem Nounou, Mohamed Nounou
2022 IEEE Access  
One of the most promising renewable energy technologies is photovoltaics (PV).  ...  Next, in order to more improve the diagnosis abilities, two interval kernel PCA (IKPCA)-based EL classifiers are developed.  ...  A first fault F 1 was emulated by introducing an open-circuit fault on one of the inverter switches at the time (inverter fault).  ... 
doi:10.1109/access.2022.3167147 fatcat:piaxojui2bf6jpliagy7nsc6s4

Variability Expeditions: A Retrospective

Rajesh K. Gupta, Subhasish Mitra, Puneet Gupta
2019 IEEE design & test  
The research showed that some of the classical fault tolerance techniques had outlived utility in the new computing systems.  ...  As we built circuits, microarchitecture, devised coding methods, and adaptive algorithms, the research accelerated the trends toward fault tolerance in programming languages from fringe efforts such as  ...  The research showed that some of the classical fault tolerance techniques had outlived utility in the new computing systems.  ... 
doi:10.1109/mdat.2018.2889103 fatcat:4yskrdyganh6baxctvjaekccya

Robust Sequential Circuits Design Technique for Low Voltage and High Noise Scenarios

Lancelot Garcia-Leyva, Juan Rivera-Dueñas, Antonio Calomarde, Francesc Moll, Antonio Rubio, P. Plapper, M. Guo, S. Suhag
2016 MATEC Web of Conferences  
In this paper we introduce an innovative input and output data redundancy principle for sequential block circuits, the responsible to keep the state of the system, showing its efficiency in front of other  ...  All electronic processing components in future deep nanotechnologies will exhibit high noise level and/or low S/N ratios because of the extreme voltage reduction and the nearly erratic nature of such devices  ...  Acknowledgments This research work has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) through projects TEC2008-01856 and PLE2009-0024, and Government of Mexico under grant 164013  ... 
doi:10.1051/matecconf/20164202003 fatcat:5xlku5cz6bg55i5jhr6euyjq2a

Integration of nanoscale memristor synapses in neuromorphic computing architectures

Giacomo Indiveri, Bernabé Linares-Barranco, Robert Legenstein, George Deligeorgis, Themistoklis Prodromakis
2013 Nanotechnology  
circuit which represents a radical departure from conventional neuro-computing approaches, as it uses memristors to directly emulate the biophysics and temporal dynamics of real synapses.  ...  block for implementing brain-inspired probabilistic computing paradigms that are robust to variability and fault-tolerant by design.  ...  Acknowledgment This work was supported by the European CHIST-ERA program, via the "Plasticity in NEUral Memristive Architectures" (PNEUMA) project.  ... 
doi:10.1088/0957-4484/24/38/384010 pmid:23999381 fatcat:6isdvp5f4vhgddskpmlx2xq5ra

Validation of the Proposed Hardness Analysis Technique for FPGA Designs to Improve Reliability and Fault-Tolerance

Abdul Rafay Khatri, Ali Hayek, Josef B¨orcs¨ok
2018 International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications  
Reliability and fault tolerance of FPGA systems is a major concern nowadays. The continuous increase of the system's complexity makes the reliability evaluation extremely difficult and costly.  ...  , which improves reliability.  ...  fault simulation and emulation of designs.  ... 
doi:10.14569/ijacsa.2018.091201 fatcat:ghd7nf4wojehhdnt7hwsy2avjq

Analysis of Min-Sum based decoders implemented on noisy hardware

Christiane L. Kameni Ngassa, Valentin Savin, David Declercq
2013 2013 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers  
Motivated by the problem of designing fault-tolerant memories built out from unreliable components, this paper investigates the performance of two noisy Min-Sum-based decoders on Binary Symmetric Channels  ...  We also present the finite length performance of two Min-Sum based decoders, and point out the excellent performance of the noisy Self-Corrected Min-Sum decoder, which exhibits almost the same performance  ...  The objective of the SCMS is to determine if a correction circuit "plugged into" the noisy MS decoder can improve the robustness of the decoder to hardware noise.  ... 
doi:10.1109/acssc.2013.6810411 dblp:conf/acssc/NgassaSD13 fatcat:bwe6wlawljfjppzu2qtw3ck33i

An FPGA-based real quantum computer emulator

Jakub Pilch, Jacek Długopolski
2018 Journal of Computational Electronics  
This paper describes a proposition of a universal and scalable quantum computer emulator, in which the FPGA hardware emulates the behavior of a real quantum system, capable of running quantum algorithms  ...  The article also shows the proposed quantum emulator architecture, exposing a standard programming interface, and working results of an implementation of an exemplary quantum algorithm.  ...  There are many proposed emulator architectures based on FPGA circuits, but none of them are fully focused on simple, naturally parallel emulation of quantum circuits.  ... 
doi:10.1007/s10825-018-1287-5 fatcat:rnijfqnnxzfozkjecbyvbdvkce

Time-Multiplexed Online Checking: A Feasibility Study

Ming Gao, S. Chang Hsiu-Ming, P. Lisherness, T. Kwang-Ting Cheng
2008 2008 17th Asian Test Symposium  
This incurs less area overhead, and could maintain fault coverage similar to traditional checkers. The test quality is studied using a probabilistic model.  ...  The implementation feasibility using a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is demonstrated.  ...  Acknowledgements The authors acknowledge the valuable suggestions from Professor Jin-Fu Li at the National Central University, Taiwan  ... 
doi:10.1109/ats.2008.23 dblp:conf/ats/GaoCLC08 fatcat:77cwgr26evf4veobfcijq5r2ey

On the use of inexact, pruned hardware in atmospheric modelling

P. D. Duben, J. Joven, A. Lingamneni, H. McNamara, G. De Micheli, K. V. Palem, T. N. Palmer
2014 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences  
Peter Düben performed the numerical simulations, developed the emulator for pruned hardware and wrote large parts of the paper.  ...  The idea to write a paper on the use of pruned hardware in Lorenz '96 developed during a meeting of Peter Düben, Hugh McNamara, Krishna Palem and Tim Palmer.  ...  The significance value quantifies the impact of a node on the accuracy of the circuit.  ... 
doi:10.1098/rsta.2013.0276 pmid:24842031 pmcid:PMC4024232 fatcat:f6an3ch2gnabxawszkb5mjpfoi
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