Reliability-Performance Analysis of Hardware and Software Co-Designs in SRAM-Based APSoCs

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2018
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Tambara L.A.
Kastensmidt F.L.
Rech P.
Lins F.
Medina N.H.
Added N.
Aguiar V.A.P.
Silveira M.A.G.
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IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
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TAMBARA, LUCAS ANTUNES; KASTENSMIDT, FERNANDA LIMA; RECH, PAOLO; LINS, FILIPE; MEDINA, NILBERTO H.; ADDED, NEMITALA; AGUIAR, VITOR A. P.; SILVEIRA, MARCILEI A. G.. Reliability-Performance Analysis of Hardware and Software Co-Designs in SRAM-based APSoCs. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE, v. 65, n. 8, p. 1935-1942, 2018.
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© 1963-2012 IEEE.All programmable system-on-chip (APSoC) devices provide higher system performance and programmable flexibility at lower costs compared to standalone field-programmable gate array devices and processors. Unfortunately, it has been demonstrated that the high complexity and density of APSoCs increase the system's susceptibility to radiation-induced errors. This paper investigates the effects of soft errors on APSoCs at design level through reliability and performance analyses. We explore 28 different hardware and software co-designs varying the workload distribution between hardware and software. We also propose a reliability analysis flow based on fault injection (FI) to estimate the reliability trend of hardware-only and software-only designs and hardware-software co-designs. Results obtained from both radiation experiments and FI campaigns reveal that performance and reliability can be improved up to 117× by offloading the workload of an APSoC-based system to its programmable logic core. We also show that the proposed flow is a precise method to estimate the reliability trend of system designs on APSoCs before radiation experiments.

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