FPGAs have been shown to operate reliably within harsh radiation environments by employing single-event upset (SEU) mitigation techniques, such as configuration scrubbing, triple-modular redundancy, error correction coding, and radiation aware ...

Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are used in large numbers in data centers around the world. They are used for cloud computing and computer networking. The most common type of FPGA used in data centers are re-programmable SRAM-based FPGAs. These ...

Emerging three-dimensional (3D) memory technologies, such as the Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), provide high-bandwidth and massive memory-level parallelism. With the growing heterogeneity and complexity of computer systems (...

We show that continuously monitoring on-chip delays at the LUT-to-LUT link level during operation allows a field-programmable gate array to detect and self-adapt to aging and environmental timing effects. Using a lightweight (<4% added area) mechanism ...

The dynamic partial reconfiguration functionality of FPGAs can be attacked, particularly when the FPGA is remotely located or the configuration bitstreams are sent through insecure networks. The existing FPGA technologies provide some built-in security ...

Karhunen-Loeve Transformation is a widely used algorithm in signal processing that often implemented with high-throughput requisites. This work presents a novel methodology to optimise KLT designs on FPGAs that outperform typical design methodologies, ...

With an increasing number of processing elements (PEs) integrated on a single chip, fault-tolerant techniques are critical to ensure the reliability of such complex systems. In current reconfigurable architectures, redundant PEs are utilized for fault ...

Multiprocessor systems-on-chip (MPSoCs) are becoming a popular design choice in current and future technology nodes to accommodate the heterogeneous computing demand of a multitude of applications enabled on these platform. Streaming multimedia and ...

Dependability issues due to nonfunctional properties are emerging as a major cause of faults in modern digital systems. Effective countermeasures have to be developed to properly manage their critical timing effects. This article presents a methodology ...

Over the past 15 years many organizations have researched the use of Static-Random Access Memory (SRAM)-based Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in space. Although the components can provide a performance improvement over radiation-hardened ...

Timing Extraction identifies the delay of fine-grained components within an FPGA. From these computed delays, the delay of any path can be calculated. Moreover, a comparison of the fine-grained delays allows a detailed understanding of the amount and ...

This article introduces the resilient adaptive algebraic architecture that aims at adapting parallelism exploitation of a matrix multiplication algorithm in a time-deterministic fashion to reduce power consumption while meeting real-time deadlines ...

Commercial SRAM-based, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have the potential to provide space applications with the necessary performance to meet next-generation mission requirements. However, mitigating an FPGA’s susceptibility to single-event ...

Innovation cycles have been shortening significantly during the last years. This process puts tremendous pressure on designers of embedded systems for security-or reliability-critical applications. Eventual design problems not detected during design ...

Electronic systems on a chip increasingly suffer from component variation, voltage noise, thermal hotspots, and other subtle physical phenomena. Systems with reconfigurability have unique opportunities for adapting to such effects. Required, however, ...

We present the world's first test compression technique that features automation of compression rules for test time reduction on dynamically reconfigurable processors. Evaluations on an actual 40-nm product show that our technique achieves a 2.7 times ...

Aggressive scaling increases the number of devices we can integrate per square millimeter but makes it increasingly difficult to guarantee that each device fabricated has the intended operational characteristics. Without careful mitigation, component ...

Electronic systems for safety critical applications such as space and avionics need the maximum level of dependability for guarantee the success of their missions. Simultaneously the computation capabilities required in these fields are constantly ...

In the present study, we investigate the use of reconfigurable logic devices (RLDs) as intellectual properties (IPs) for system on a chip (SoC). Using RLDs, SoCs can achieve both high performance and high flexibility. However, conventional RLDs have ...

The growth of the Reconfigurable Computing (RC) systems community exposes diverse requirements with regard to functionality of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools. Low-level design tools are increasingly required for RC bitstream debugging and IP ...