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On Dependability of FPGA-Based Evolvable Hardware Systems That Utilize Virtual Reconfigurable Circuits

SEKANINA, L. On Dependability of FPGA-Based Evolvable Hardware Systems That Utilize Virtual Reconfigurable Circuits. Computing Frontiers 2006 Conference. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2006. p. 221-228. ISBN: 1595933026.
Czech title
O spolehlivosti vyvíjejcích se systémů implementovaných v FPGA, které využívají virtuální rekonfigurovatelné obvody
Type
conference paper
Language
English
Authors
Sekanina Lukáš, prof. Ing., Ph.D. (DCSY)
URL
Keywords

FPGA, dependability, evolvable hardware, virtual reconfigurable circuit

Abstract

This paper describes experiments conducted to estimate how the use of (area-demanding) virtual reconfigurable circuits (VRC) influences the dependability of FPGA-based evolvable systems. It is shown that these systems are not so sensitive to faults as their area-demanding implementations could evoke. Evolutionary techniques are utilized to design fault tolerant circuits in a virtual reconfigurable circuit and to perform their automatic functional recovery in case of occurence of faults in a configuration memory of FPGA. All the experiments are performed on models of reconfigurable devices. This paper does not claim that the use of the VRC improves the dependability; it shows how the use of VRCs could influence the dependability.

Published
2006
Pages
221–228
Proceedings
Computing Frontiers 2006 Conference
ISBN
1595933026
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Place
New York
BibTeX 
@inproceedings{BUT22242,
  author="Lukáš {Sekanina}",
  title="On Dependability of FPGA-Based Evolvable Hardware Systems That Utilize Virtual Reconfigurable Circuits",
  booktitle="Computing Frontiers 2006 Conference",
  year="2006",
  pages="221--228",
  publisher="Association for Computing Machinery",
  address="New York",
  isbn="1595933026",
  url="http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~sekanina/publ/acm_cf/acmcf06.pdf"
}
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