Methods for fault tolerance in networks-on-chip

M Radetzki, C Feng, X Zhao, A Jantsch - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2013‏ - dl.acm.org
Networks-on-Chip constitute the interconnection architecture of future, massively parallel
multiprocessors that assemble hundreds to thousands of processing cores on a single chip …

Reliable on-chip systems in the nano-era: Lessons learnt and future trends

J Henkel, L Bauer, N Dutt, P Gupta, S Nassif… - Proceedings of the 50th …, 2013‏ - dl.acm.org
Reliability concerns due to technology scaling have been a major focus of researchers and
designers for several technology nodes. Therefore, many new techniques for enhancing and …

Underdesigned and opportunistic computing in presence of hardware variability

P Gupta, Y Agarwal, L Dolecek, N Dutt… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2012‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microelectronic circuits exhibit increasing variations in performance, power consumption,
and reliability parameters across the manufactured parts and across use of these parts over …

Moore's law: The first ending and a new beginning

AA Chien, V Karamcheti - Computer, 2013‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Moore's law has accurately predicted roughly biennial doubling of component capacity at
minimal cost for almost 50 years. Recent flash memory scaling exhibits increased density …

Workload dependent NBTI and PBTI analysis for a sub-45nm commercial microprocessor

E Mintarno, V Chandra, D Pietromonaco… - 2013 IEEE …, 2013‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper analyzes aging effects on various design hierarchies of a sub-45nm commercial
processor running realistic applications. Dependencies of aging effects on switching-activity …

At-speed distributed functional testing to detect logic and delay faults in NoCs

MR Kakoee, V Bertacco, L Benini - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we propose a distributed functional test mechanism for NoCs which scales to
large-scale networks with general topologies and routing algorithms. Each router and its …

Robust system design to overcome CMOS reliability challenges

S Mitra, K Brelsford, YM Kim… - IEEE Journal on …, 2011‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Today's mainstream electronic systems typically assume that transistors and interconnects
operate correctly over their useful lifetime. With enormous complexity and significantly …

Estimating circuit aging due to BTI and HCI using ring-oscillator-based sensors

D Sengupta, SS Sapatnekar - IEEE Transactions on Computer …, 2017‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance of nanometer-scale circuits is adversely affected by aging induced by bias
temperature instability (BTI) and hot carrier injection (HCI). Both BTI and HCI impact …

Assessment of circuit optimization techniques under NBTI

X Chen, Y Wang, Y Cao, Y **e, H Yang - IEEE Design & Test, 2013‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper conducts a comprehensive study on existing circuit optimization techniques
against NBTI, degradation mechanism that has become a critical reliability issue for nano …

Fine-grained aging-induced delay prediction based on the monitoring of run-time stress

A Vijayan, A Koneru, S Kiamehr… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Run-time solutions based on online monitoring and adaptation are required for resilience in
nanoscale integrated circuits, as design-time solutions and guard bands are no longer …