Title
Comparative study of defect-tolerant multiplexers for FPGAs.
Abstract
As CMOS technology enters the nanometer regime, manufacturing defects are becoming a challenging concern in current and future technologies. This work aims at improving defect tolerance in FPGAs which are certainly affected by technology downsizing. Since the cornerstone of the FPGA logic and interconnect resources is the multiplexer, we compare different hardened architectures of the multiplexer in terms of robustness, area, power and delay, in order to select the most convenient one according to a design metric we define. The architectures are studied under single defect injection by a tool that models several possible defects for a given design according to its extracted netlist. Eventually, the robustness gain using the chosen multiplexer is assessed for different sizes of FPGA look-up tables.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/IOLTS.2014.6873661
IOLTS
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
logic design,robustness,cmos technology,field programmable gate arrays,computer architecture,fault tolerance
Conference
1942-9398
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
17
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Arwa Ben Dhia1325.50
Mariem Slimani2237.05
Lirida A. B. Naviner38326.52