Increasing microprocessor vulnerability to soft errors induced by neutron and alpha particle strikes prevents aggressive scaling and integration of transistors in future technologi...
Jie Hu, Greg M. Link, Johnsy K. John, Shuai Wang, ...
Technology scaling in integrated circuits has consistently provided dramatic performance improvements in modern microprocessors. However, increasing device counts and decreasing o...
The importance of fault tolerance at the processor architecture level has been made increasingly important due to rapid advancements in the design and usage of high performance de...
T. S. Ganesh, Viswanathan Subramanian, Arun K. Som...
Testing is a difficult process that becomes more difficult with scaling. With smaller and faster devices, tolerance for errors shrinks and devices may act correctly under certain ...
Concentration of design effort for current single-chip Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) microprocessors has been directed towards performance. Reliability has not been the primary ...