A system health indicator for the distributed minority and majority voting based redundancy scheme
| Autor: | Krishnamachar Prasad, Douglas L. Maskell, Padmanabhan Balasubramanian |
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| Přispěvatelé: | School of Computer Science and Engineering, 2018 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON), Centre for High Performance Embedded Systems |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
010302 applied physics
Majority rule Electrical and electronic engineering::Integrated circuits [Engineering] Computer science 02 engineering and technology Troubleshooting 01 natural sciences Health indicator 020202 computer hardware & architecture Reliability engineering VLSI Computer science and engineering::Hardware [Engineering] Logic gate 0103 physical sciences Digital Circuits 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Redundancy (engineering) Observability |
| Zdroj: | TENCON |
| Popis: | The distributed minority and majority voting-based redundancy (DMMR) scheme was proposed as an efficient alternative to the conventional N-modular redundancy (NMR) scheme for the design of mission and safety-critical circuits and systems. However, only a basic implementation of the DMMR scheme was considered with no provision for indicating any fault or error in the DMMR system when they might occur. In this context, this paper presents the novel design of a generic system health indicator (SHI) for the DMMR scheme. Compared to the basic DMMR system, the DMMR system with the proposed SHI can provide concurrent information about the state of the system, i.e., whether the system is healthy or not. This helps to improve the observability of the DMMR system which could be useful during the online testing and/or troubleshooting of any faulty zones in the system, pre-emptively or during any scheduled maintenance. Example DMMR systems and their corresponding NMR systems without and with SHI have been implemented using a 32/28nm CMOS process and compared. On average, the DMMR systems with the proposed SHI report 6.5× improvement in a normalized figure of merit compared to the corresponding NMR systems incorporating SHI. Ministry of Education (MOE) Accepted version This work is supported by the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) Academic Research Fund Tier 2 under grant MOE2017-T2-1-002 and MOE Tier 1 under grant RG132/16. |
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