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The Fault-tolerant Single-FPGA Systems with a Self-repair Reconfiguration Controller

PÁNEK, R.; LOJDA, J. The Fault-tolerant Single-FPGA Systems with a Self-repair Reconfiguration Controller. In LASCAS 2023 - 14th IEEE Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Proceedings. Quito: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2023. p. 104-107. ISBN: 978-1-6654-5705-7.
Czech title
Systémy odolné proti poruchám na jednom FPGA se samoopravným řadičem rekonfigurace
Type
conference paper
Language
English
Authors
Pánek Richard, Ing., Ph.D. (DCSY)
Lojda Jakub, Ing., Ph.D. (DCSY)
Keywords

Fault Tolerance, Partial Dynamic Reconfiguration Controller, FPGA, Fault
Tolerance Evaluation

Abstract

Fault tolerance in electronic systems is essential in harsh environments such as
space. However, FPGAs that can be used to accelerate various computations are
prone to configuration memory failures that determine their function. Repairing
these failures is essential to increase system resilience. For this purpose, the
partial dynamic reconfiguration controller is necessary. To design
a comprehensive system inside one FPGA, we force the controller to be on the same
FPGA with a payload circuit. We create and thoroughly test a new reconfiguration
controller to increase the system's resiliency with the ability to repair itself
during its own operation. For this purpose, the FPGA controller is in
coarse-grained triple modular redundancy to be able to recover despite the
failure of any of its modules. The proposed controller has been tested to
increase the resilience of circuits from a set of benchmark circuits. The entire
system with the controller was evaluated on an actual FPGA, where faults were
injected directly into the configuration memory of this FPGA. Reliability
parameters are measured by a platform designed for this purpose, partly directly
on the tested FPGA. As we can see from the results, the mean time to failure has
been increased by up to 69% compared to a system equipped with only triple
modular redundancy with a reasonable amount of hardware resources. The
competitive solution brings only a 42% improvement in resilience with the same
parameters.

Published
2023
Pages
104–107
Proceedings
LASCAS 2023 - 14th IEEE Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Proceedings
Conference
14TH IEEE LATIN AMERICAN SYMPOSIUM ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, QUITO, ECUADOR, EC
ISBN
978-1-6654-5705-7
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Place
Quito
DOI
10.1109/LASCAS56464.2023.10108372
UT WoS
000990483600026
EID Scopus
2-s2.0-85159712344
BibTeX 
@inproceedings{BUT185124,
  author="Richard {Pánek} and Jakub {Lojda}",
  title="The Fault-tolerant Single-FPGA Systems with a Self-repair Reconfiguration Controller",
  booktitle="LASCAS 2023 - 14th IEEE Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Proceedings",
  year="2023",
  pages="104--107",
  publisher="Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
  address="Quito",
  doi="10.1109/LASCAS56464.2023.10108372",
  isbn="978-1-6654-5705-7",
  url="https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/12822/"
}
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