Institute for Communication Technologies and Embedded Systems

Processor Design with Asymmetric Reliability

Authors:
Wang, Z. ,  Paul, G. ,  Chattopadhyay, A.
Book Title:
IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI)
Series:
IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI
Pages:
p.p. 565 - 570
Address:
Tampa, Florida, USA
Date:
Jul. 2014
DOI:
10.1109/ISVLSI.2014.63
Language:
English
Abstract:
Continuous shrinking of device size has introduced reliability as a new challenge for improving design lifetime, mitigating errors and allowing various performance trade-offs. Reliability is a cross-layer design issue, where errors need to be managed starting from the algorithm down to the circuit. To facilitate such a design, we adopt an information-theoretic view of embedded processors, where the processor is conceptualized as a noisy network. We propose a versatile asymmetric error detection/correction framework based on instruction-level vulnerability analysis. To efficiently trade-off reliability with other performance constraints, multiple novel techniques are proposed, which are evaluated through a range of experiments.
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