Techniques to improve the reliability of fault-tolerant systems based on self-reconfigurable FPGAs

• Autor(a) principal: José Martins Ferreira
• Data de Publicação: 2005
• Outros Autores: André Roberto Guerra, Manuel G. Gericota
• Tipo de documento: Livro
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/84033
• topic: Engenharia electrotécnica, Engenharia electrotécnica, electrónica e informática; Electrical engineering, Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

In this paper it is proposed a new technique to improve the reliability of fault-tolerant systems based on self-reconfigurable FPGAs. The aim is to create a self-tolerant system based on selfreconfiguration. To achieve this objective the work was divided in five main tasks: the analysis of fault inducement mechanisms in FPGAs, its correlation and its matching with existent fault models, or, eventually, if necessary, the proposal of a new model; the design and evaluation of a fault tolerance mechanism for FPGAs; the design and implementation of a methodology able to detect, diagnose and repair the emerging faults; the development and validation of the proposed methodology. This study will be the base for a PhD thesis.