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Radiation environment emulation for VLSI designs: a low cost platform based on xilinx FPGA's
Autor/es | Nápoles Luengo, Javier
Guzmán-Miranda, Hipólito Aguirre Echanove, Miguel Ángel Tombs, J. N. Muñoz Chavero, Fernando Baena Lecuyer, Vicente Torralba Silgado, Antonio Jesús García Franquelo, Leopoldo |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica |
Fecha de publicación | 2007 |
Fecha de depósito | 2015-03-26 |
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ISBN/ISSN | 978-1-4244-0754-5 |
Resumen | As technology shrinks, critical industral applications have to be designed with special care. VLSI circuits become more sensitive to ambient radiation: it affects to the internal structures, combinational or sequential ... As technology shrinks, critical industral applications have to be designed with special care. VLSI circuits become more sensitive to ambient radiation: it affects to the internal structures, combinational or sequential elements. The effects, known as Single Event Effects (SEEs), are modeled as spontaneous logical changes in a running netlist. They can be mitigated at netlist design level by means of inserting massive redundancy logic in the IC memory elements, as well as designing robust deadlock-free state machines. Current techniques for the analysis and verification of the protection logic for VLSI are inefficient and expensive, lacking either speed or analysis. This paper presents the FT-UNSHADES system. This system is a low cost emulator focused on bit-flip insertion and SEE analysis at hardware speed, based on a Xilinx Virtex-II. Radiation tests are emulated in a highly controlled process, using a non-intrusive method. As a result the system can insert and analyse at least 80K faults per hour in a system with 2 million test vectors. |
Cita | Nápoles Luengo, J., Guzmán-Miranda, H., Aguirre Echanove, M.Á., Tombs, J.N., Muñoz Chavero, F., Baena Lecuyer, V.,...,García Franquelo, L. (2007). Radiation environment emulation for VLSI designs: a low cost platform based on xilinx FPGA's. IEEE. |
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