Title :
Fault-tolerant in-memory crossbar computing using quantified constraint solving
Author :
Alvaro Velasquez;Sumit Kumar Jha
Author_Institution :
EECS Department, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Abstract :
There has been a surge of interest in the effective storage and computation of data using nanoscale crossbars. In this paper, we present a new method for automating the design of fault-tolerant crossbars that can effectively compute Boolean formula. Our approach leverages recent advances in Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solving for quantified bit-vector formula (QBVF). We demonstrate that our method is well-suited for fault-tolerant computation and can perform Boolean computations despite stuck-open and stuck-closed interconnect defects as well as wire faults. We employ our framework to generate various arithmetic and logical circuits that compute correctly despite the presence of stuck-at faults as well as broken wires.
Keywords :
"Wires","CMOS integrated circuits","Nanoscale devices","Computer architecture","Memristors","Nanowires","Fault tolerance"
Conference_Titel :
Computer Design (ICCD), 2015 33rd IEEE International Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ICCD.2015.7357090