Campus Units
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Conference
2009 IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems & Networks
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Link to Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1109/DSN.2009.5270340
Publication Date
2009
Journal or Book Title
2009 IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems & Networks
First Page
185
Last Page
194
DOI
10.1109/DSN.2009.5270340
Conference Title
2009 IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems & Networks
Conference Date
June 29 – July 2, 2010
City
Lisbon, Portugal
Abstract
The threat of soft error induced system failure in high performance computing systems has become more prominent, as we adopt ultra-deep submicron process technologies. In this paper, we propose two techniques, namely soft error mitigation (SEM) and soft and timing error mitigation (STEM), for protecting combinational logic blocks from soft errors. Our first technique (SEM), based on distributed and temporal voting of three registers, unloads the soft error detection overhead from the critical path of the systems. Our second technique (STEM) adds timing error detection capability to guarantee reliable execution in aggressively clocked designs that enhance system performance by operating beyond worst-case clock frequency. We also present a specialized low overhead clock generation scheme that ably supports our proposed techniques. Timing annotated gate level simulations, using 45 nm libraries, of a pipelined adder-multiplier and DLX processor show that both our techniques achieve near 100% fault coverage. For DLX processor, even under severe fault injection campaigns, SEM achieves an average performance improvement of 26.58% over a conventional triple modular redundancy voter based soft error mitigation scheme, while STEM outperforms SEM by 27.42%.
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Copyright Owner
IEEE
Copyright Date
2009
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Avirneni, Naga Durga Prasad; Subramanian, Viswanathan; and Somani, Arun K., "Low overhead Soft Error Mitigation techniques for high-performance and aggressive systems" (2009). Electrical and Computer Engineering Conference Papers, Posters and Presentations. 127.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ece_conf/127
Comments
This is a manuscript of a proceeding published as Avirneni, Naga Durga Prasad, Viswanathan Subramanian, and Arun K. Somani. "Low overhead Soft Error Mitigation techniques for high-performance and aggressive systems." In 2009 IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems & Networks (2009): 185-194. DOI: 10.1109/DSN.2009.5270340. Posted with permission.