Title :
Design and implementation of an FPGA-based 1oo4-architecture for safety-related system-on-chips
Author :
Hayek, Ali ; Al-Bokhaiti, Moneer ; Borcsok, Josef
Author_Institution :
Comput. Archit. & Syst. Program., Univ. of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Abstract :
FPGAs introduce a very attractive platform for the designing process of complex embedded systems. The complexity of these systems should be controlled to fulfill high demands and requirements, especially in safety-related applications, where aspects like reliability, availability and safety are of the utmost significance. In this context, the present paper intends the design and implementation of a novel on-chip quadruple redundant safety-related system architecture (1oo4-architecture - one out of four) as a fault tolerant technique to increase the level of safety integrity, reliability and availability of electronic embedded systems. For this aim the 1oo4-architecture and their related safety characteristics are briefly demonstrated. The FPGA-based embedded system model of this novel architecture is developed and explained. The main part of this paper focuses on the safety-related implementation on FPGA. Finally, an evaluation of the implemented architecture concludes this paper.
Keywords :
field programmable gate arrays; safety; system-on-chip; FPGA-based 1oo4-architecture; availability; electronic embedded systems; fault tolerant technique; on-chip quadruple redundant safety-related system architecture; reliability; safety integrity; safety-related system-on-chips; Chirp; Field programmable gate arrays; Monitoring; Process control; Reduced instruction set computing; Table lookup; FPGAs; Safety Systems; System-on-Chips;
Conference_Titel :
Microelectronics (ICM), 2013 25th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beirut
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3569-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICM.2013.6734967