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2017 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Applying TMR in Hardware Accelerators Generated by High-Level Synthesis Design Flow for Mitigating Multiple Bit Upsets in SRAM-Based FPGAs
verfasst von : André Flores dos Santos, Lucas Antunes Tambara, Fabio Benevenuti, Jorge Tonfat, Fernanda Lima Kastensmidt
Erschienen in: Applied Reconfigurable Computing
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Abstract
This paper investigates the use of Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) in hardware accelerators designs described in C programming language and synthesized by High Level Synthesis (HLS). A setup composed of a soft-core processor and a matrix multiplication design protected by TMR and embedded into an SRAM-based FPGA was analyzed under accumulated bit-flips in its configuration memory bits. Different configurations using single and multiple input and output workload data streams were tested. Results show that by using a coarse grain TMR with triplicated inputs, voters, and outputs, it is possible to reach 95% of reliability by accumulating up to 61 bit-flips and 99% of reliability by accumulating up to 17 bit-flips in the configuration memory bits. These numbers imply in a Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) of the coarse grain TMR at ground level from 50% to 70% higher than the MTBF of the unhardened version for the same reliability confidence.