Title :
Improving the dependability of FPGA-based real-time embedded systems with partial dynamic reconfiguration
Author :
Nunes, Jose Luis
Author_Institution :
CISUC, Univ. of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Abstract :
This paper explores advances in reconfiguration properties of SRAM-based FPGAs to improve the resilience of real-time embedded systems that use this technology. The effects of radiation on these devices are described and the applicability of the most used fault tolerance approaches is investigated. It finishes proposing a few improvements on these methodologies and discusses the roadmap to reach that goal, presenting the on-going and the future work.
Keywords :
SRAM chips; embedded systems; fault tolerance; field programmable gate arrays; FPGA-based real-time embedded system dependability; SRAM-based FPGA; fault tolerance approach; partial dynamic reconfiguration; Circuit faults; Embedded systems; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Field programmable gate arrays; Random access memory; Real-time systems; FPGA; SEU; dependability; embedded systems; real-time;
Conference_Titel :
Dependable Systems and Networks Workshop (DSN-W), 2013 43rd Annual IEEE/IFIP Conference on
Conference_Location :
Budapest
DOI :
10.1109/DSNW.2013.6615521
