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PÁNEK, R. LOJDA, J.
Original Title
The Fault-tolerant Single-FPGA Systems with a Self-repair Reconfiguration Controller
Type
conference paper
Language
English
Original Abstract
Fault tolerance in electronic systems is essential in harsh environments such as space. However, FPGAs that can be used to accelerate various computations are prone to configuration memory failures that determine their function. Repairing these failures is essential to increase system resilience. For this purpose, the partial dynamic reconfiguration controller is necessary. To design a comprehensive system inside one FPGA, we force the controller to be on the same FPGA with a payload circuit. We create and thoroughly test a new reconfiguration controller to increase the system's resiliency with the ability to repair itself during its own operation. For this purpose, the FPGA controller is in coarse-grained triple modular redundancy to be able to recover despite the failure of any of its modules. The proposed controller has been tested to increase the resilience of circuits from a set of benchmark circuits. The entire system with the controller was evaluated on an actual FPGA, where faults were injected directly into the configuration memory of this FPGA. Reliability parameters are measured by a platform designed for this purpose, partly directly on the tested FPGA. As we can see from the results, the mean time to failure has been increased by up to 69% compared to a system equipped with only triple modular redundancy with a reasonable amount of hardware resources. The competitive solution brings only a 42% improvement in resilience with the same parameters.
Keywords
Fault Tolerance, Partial Dynamic Reconfiguration Controller, FPGA, Fault Tolerance Evaluation
Authors
PÁNEK, R.; LOJDA, J.
Released
1. 5. 2023
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Location
Quito
ISBN
978-1-6654-5705-7
Book
LASCAS 2023 - 14th IEEE Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Proceedings
Pages from
104
Pages to
107
Pages count
4
URL
https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/12822/
BibTex
@inproceedings{BUT185124, author="Richard {Pánek} and Jakub {Lojda}", title="The Fault-tolerant Single-FPGA Systems with a Self-repair Reconfiguration Controller", booktitle="LASCAS 2023 - 14th IEEE Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Proceedings", year="2023", pages="104--107", publisher="Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers", address="Quito", doi="10.1109/LASCAS56464.2023.10108372", isbn="978-1-6654-5705-7", url="https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/12822/" }