Evaluating Soft Core RISC-V Processor in SRAM-Based FPGA Under Radiation Effects
| Autor: | Luis A. C. Benites, Nemitala Added, Fabio Benevenuti, Nilberto H. Medina, Adria Barros de Oliveira, Marcilei A. G. Silveira, Fernanda Lima Kastensmidt, Lucas A. Tambara, V. A. P. Aguiar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Triple modular redundancy
Nuclear and High Energy Physics Emulation MATERIAIS 010308 nuclear & particles physics Computer science business.industry Hardware_PERFORMANCEANDRELIABILITY Fault injection 01 natural sciences Nuclear Energy and Engineering Gate array Embedded system 0103 physical sciences RISC-V Redundancy (engineering) Static random-access memory Electrical and Electronic Engineering Field-programmable gate array business |
| Zdroj: | Repositório Institucional da USP (Biblioteca Digital da Produção Intelectual) Universidade de São Paulo (USP) instacron:USP |
| ISSN: | 1558-1578 0018-9499 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/tns.2020.2995729 |
| Popis: | This article evaluates the RISC-V Rocket processor embedded in a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) SRAM-based field-programmable gate array (FPGA) under heavy-ions-induced faults and emulation fault injection. We also analyze the efficiency of using mitigation techniques based on hardware redundancy and scrubbing. Results demonstrated an improvement of $3\times $ in the cross section when scrubbing and coarse grain triple modular redundancy are used. The Rocket processor presented analogous sensitivity to radiation effects as the state-of-the-art soft processors. Due to the complexity of the system-on-chip, not only the Rocket core but also its peripherals should be protected with proper solutions. Such solutions should address the specific vulnerabilities of each component to improve the overall system reliability while maintaining the trade-off with performance. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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