H01L25/18—Assemblies consisting of a plurality of individual semiconductor or other solid
state devices; Multistep manufacturing processes thereof the devices being of types …

Recent trends of aggressive technology scaling have greatly exacerbated the occurrences
and impact of faults in computing systems. This has madereliability'a first-order design …

Mounting concerns over variability, defects, and noise motivate a new approach for digital
circuitry: stochastic logic, that is to say, logic that operates on probabilistic signals and so …

Aggressive technology scaling provides designers with an ever increasing budget of
cheaper and faster transistors. Unfortunately, this trend is accompanied by a decline in …

One of the most effective techniques to reduce a processor's power consumption is to
reduce supply voltage. However, reducing voltage in the context of manufacturing-induced …

Technology advancements have enabled the integration of large on-die embedded DRAM
(eDRAM) caches. eDRAM is significantly denser than traditional SRAMs, but must be …

Voltage scaling is one of the most effective mechanisms to improve microprocessors' energy
efficiency. However, processors cannot operate reliably below a minimum voltage, Vccmin …

Voltage scaling is one of the most effective mechanisms to reduce microprocessor power
consumption. However, the increased severity of manufacturing-induced parameter …

This paper discusses principles and techniques to evaluate processors for dependable
computing in space applications. The focus is on soft errors, which dominate the failure rate …

This paper presents a novel technique, Memory Mapped ECC, which reduces the cost of
providing error correction for SRAM caches. It is important to limit such overheads as …