• DocumentCode
    3694115
  • Title

    ARRA: Application-guided reliability-enhanced registerfile architecture for embedded processors

  • Author

    Hamed Tabkhi;Gunar Schirner

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    299
  • Lastpage
    302
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we introduce an Application-guided Reliability-enhanced Register file Architecture (ARRA) to improve the reliability of RF in embedded processors. ARRA proposes a RF micro-architecture which is guided by binary instrumentation for run-time register mirroring. Our experimental results on an ARRA-enhanced Blackfin processor present that on average the power overhead of ARRA is 70% less than that of a partially-ECC-protected RF, while ARRA reduces RF Vulnerability Factor from 35% to 6.9%, and can correct up to three bit-flips errors.
  • Keywords
    "Registers","Radio frequency","Program processors","Error correction","Reliability engineering","Instruments"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    VLSI and System-on-Chip, 2012 (VLSI-SoC), IEEE/IFIP 20th International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2658-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/VLSI-SoC.2012.7332122
  • Filename
    7332122
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3694115