Title :
Self-healing asynchronous arrays
Author :
Peng, Song ; Manohar, Rajit
Author_Institution :
Comput. Syst. Lab., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
Abstract :
This paper presents a systematic method for designing of a self-healing asynchronous array in the presence of errors. By adding spare resources in one of three different ways and forcing the asynchronous circuit to stall in case of failure, the specific self-reconfiguration logic is activated by a deadlock detector and the array circuit can be reconfigured around the faulty components and recover from errors automatically. Experimental evaluations show that this method requires less hardware cost, smaller critical circuit size, lower performance overhead and is more scalable than traditional NMR-based techniques
Keywords :
asynchronous circuits; logic design; asynchronous circuit; deadlock detector; self-healing asynchronous arrays; self-reconfiguration logic; Asynchronous circuits; Automatic logic units; Design methodology; Detectors; Electrical fault detection; Fault detection; Logic arrays; Logic circuits; Reconfigurable logic; System recovery;
Conference_Titel :
Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, 2006. 12th IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Grenoble
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2498-2
DOI :
10.1109/ASYNC.2006.25