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On Dependability of FPGA-Based Evolvable Hardware Systems That Utilize Virtual Reconfigurable Circuits
FPGA, dependability, evolvable hardware, virtual reconfigurable circuit
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.
@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"
}