FTxAC

Description

Higher integration levels in semiconductors have made circuits more susceptible to radiation-induced faults. Software, hardware or hybrid mitigation techniques usually impose significant overheads in area, energy and performance.

FTxAC explores the approximate computing paradigm to propose a systematic strategy for designing radiation-tolerant embedded systems, reducing those overheads compared with the redundancy of traditional approaches.

Results / publications

• A. Aponte-Moreno, F. Restrepo-Calle and C. Pedraza. FTxAC: Leveraging the Approximate Computing Paradigm… IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 2021. doi: 10.1109/TETC.2020.2986235
• A. Aponte-Moreno, F. Restrepo-Calle, C. Pedraza. Using Approximate Computing and Selective Hardening… Electronics, 2019.
• A. Aponte-Moreno, F. Restrepo-Calle and C. Pedraza. A Low-Overhead Radiation Hardening Approach… RADECS 2019.
• A. Aponte-Moreno, C. Pedraza and F. Restrepo-Calle. Reducing Overheads in Software-based Fault Tolerant Systems… LATS 2019. doi: 10.1109/LATW.2019.8704586
• A. Aponte-Moreno et al. A review of approximate computing techniques towards fault mitigation… LATS 2018. doi: 10.1109/LATW.2018.8347241