Publication detail

On Dependability of FPGA-Based Evolvable Hardware Systems That Utilize Virtual Reconfigurable Circuits

SEKANINA, L.

Original Title

On Dependability of FPGA-Based Evolvable Hardware Systems That Utilize Virtual Reconfigurable Circuits

Type

article in a collection out of WoS and Scopus

Language

English

Original Abstract

This paper describes experiments conducted to estimate how the use of (area-demanding) virtual reconfigurable circuits (VRC) influences the dependability of FPGA-based evolvable systems. It is shown that these systems are not so sensitive to faults as their area-demanding implementations could evoke. Evolutionary techniques are utilized to design fault tolerant circuits in a virtual reconfigurable circuit and to perform their automatic functional recovery in case of occurence of faults in a configuration memory of FPGA. All the experiments are performed on models of reconfigurable devices. This paper does not claim that the use of the VRC improves the dependability; it shows how the use of VRCs could influence the dependability.

Keywords

FPGA, dependability, evolvable hardware, virtual reconfigurable circuit

Authors

SEKANINA, L.

RIV year

2006

Released

5. 5. 2006

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Location

New York

ISBN

1595933026

Book

Computing Frontiers 2006 Conference

Pages from

221

Pages to

228

Pages count

8

URL

http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~sekanina/publ/acm_cf/acmcf06.pdf

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT22242,
  author="Lukáš {Sekanina}",
  title="On Dependability of FPGA-Based Evolvable Hardware Systems That Utilize Virtual Reconfigurable Circuits",
  booktitle="Computing Frontiers 2006 Conference",
  year="2006",
  pages="221--228",
  publisher="Association for Computing Machinery",
  address="New York",
  isbn="1595933026",
  url="http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~sekanina/publ/acm_cf/acmcf06.pdf"
}