Title
Fault tolerant clockless wave pipeline design
Abstract
This paper presents a fault tolerant design technique for clockless wave pipeline. The specific architectural model investigated in this paper is the two-phase clockless wave pipeline [12] which is ideally supposed to yield the theoretical maximum performance. Request signal is the most critical component for the clockless control of the wave pipelined processing of data. In practice, the request signal is very sensitive and vulnerable to electronic crosstalk noise, referred to as glitch, and this problem has become extremely stringent in the ultra-high density integrated circuits today. Electronic crosstalk noise may devastate the operational confidence level of the clockless wave pipeline. In this context, this paper characterizes the yield and reliability properties of the two-phase clockless asynchronous pipeline with respect to glitch. Based on the yield and reliability characterization, a simple yet effective fault tolerant architecture by using redundant request signals is proposed. The reliability model evaluates the impact of the request signal glitch on the overall reliability, and can be used to maneuver the proposed fault tolerant architecture. An experimental simulation is conducted to demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed fault tolerant technique.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1145/977091.977142
Conf. Computing Frontiers
Keywords
Field
DocType
fault tolerant design technique,two-phase clockless,clockless control,electronic crosstalk noise,clockless wave pipeline,two-phase clockless wave pipeline,effective fault tolerant architecture,fault tolerant clockless wave,asynchronous pipeline,request signal,pipeline design,overall reliability,integrated circuit,fault tolerant,confidence level,reliability,fault tolerance
Asynchronous communication,Glitch,Fault tolerant architecture,Crosstalk,Computer science,Real-time computing,Fault tolerance,Integrated circuit,Architectural model,Reliability model,Embedded system
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-741-9
1
0.36
References 
Authors
8
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
T. Feng110.36
B. Jin2412.96
J. Wang310.36
N. Park4397.43
Y. B. Kim5223.80
F. Lombardi612215.25