Title :
A GPU/CUDA implementation of the collection-diffusion model to compute SER of large area and complex circuits
Author :
Autran, J.L. ; Uznanski, S. ; Martinie, S. ; Roche, P. ; Gasiot, G. ; Munteanu, D.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Mater., Microelectron. & Nanosci. of Provence, UMR, Marseille, France
Abstract :
This work reports the CUDA implementation of the collection-diffusion model to compute the soft-error rate (SER) of large area and/or complex circuits on graphics processing units (GPU). We detail the time parallelization introduced in the algorithm to accelerate by one order of magnitude the SER calculation. Code performances are evaluated on a NVIDIA Tesla C1060 GPU card for the calculation of the SER of a 65 nm SRAM circuit subjected to an alpha-particle source irradiation.
Keywords :
SRAM chips; circuit simulation; coprocessors; CUDA implementation; GPU implementation; NVIDIA Tesla C1060 GPU card; SER calculation; SRAM circuit; alpha-particle source irradiation; code performances; collection-diffusion model; complex circuits; graphics processing units; soft-error rate; time parallelization; Acceleration; Circuit simulation; Concurrent computing; Electrodes; Equations; Graphics; Parallel processing; Random access memory; Space charge; Yarn; Graphic Processor Unit (GPU); SER simulation; Single-Event Rate (SER); parallel programming;
Conference_Titel :
IC Design and Technology (ICICDT), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Grenoble
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5773-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICICDT.2010.5510293
