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Evolutionary Functional Recovery in Virtual Reconfigurable Circuits

SEKANINA, L. Evolutionary Functional Recovery in Virtual Reconfigurable Circuits. ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems, 2007, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 1-22. ISSN: 1550-4832.
Czech title
Evolutionary Functional Recovery in Virtual Reconfigurable Circuits
Type
journal article
Language
English
Authors
URL
Keywords

hardware, logic design, reliability, reconfigurable circuit, evolutionary algorithm

Abstract

A virtual reconfigurable circuit (VRC) is a domain-specific reconfigurable device developed using an ordinary FPGA in order to easily implement evolvable hardware applications. While a fast partial run-time reconfiguration and application-specific programmable elements represent the main advantages of VRC, the main disadvantage of the VRC is the area consumed. This study describes experiments conducted to estimate how the use of VRC influences the dependability of FPGA-based evolvable systems. It is shown that these systems are not as sensitive to faults as their area-demanding implementations might suggest. An evolutionary algorithm is utilized to design fault tolerant circuits as well as to perform an automatic functional recovery when faults are detected in the configuration memory of the FPGA. All the experiments are performed on models of reconfigurable devices. 

Published
2007
Pages
1–22
Journal
ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems, vol. 3, no. 2, ISSN 1550-4832
BibTeX
@article{BUT45162,
  author="Lukáš {Sekanina}",
  title="Evolutionary Functional Recovery in Virtual Reconfigurable Circuits",
  journal="ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems",
  year="2007",
  volume="3",
  number="2",
  pages="1--22",
  issn="1550-4832",
  url="http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~sekanina/publ/ject/ject07.pdf"
}
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