Το work with title Area, reconfiguration delay and reliability trade-offs in designing reliable multi-mode FIR filters by Gholamipour Amir Hossein, Papadimitriou Kyprianos, Kurdahi, Fadi, Dollas Apostolos, Eltawil Ahmed is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Bibliographic Citation
A. H. Gholamipour, K. Papadimitriou, F. Kurdahi, A. Dollas and A. Eltawil
"Area, reconfiguration delay and reliability trade-offs in designing reliable multi-mode FIR filters," in IEEE International Design and Test Workshop in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2011, pp. 82-87.
Wide range of digital systems from wireless devices tomulti-media terminals are characterized by their multi-modebehavior. Many of these systems are deployed in high-radiationenvironments [5]. SRAM-based FPGAs are popular platforms toimplement multi-mode systems, because of their highperformance and reconfigurability. However, high susceptibilityof FPGAs toward Soft Errors makes them less-than-reliableplatforms. To overcome the reliability issue, various redundancytechniques have been proposed. These techniques exhibitdifferent design and reliability characteristics. Considering thecombined effect of design decisions and reliability techniques onsystem characteristics a coherent strategy should be devised tomeet system requirements and constraints. In this work wepropose a method to explore the design space for implementing areliable multi-mode system. As we will show, different selectionsof design parameters and redundancy techniques generate arange of solutions which trade-off total area, reconfigurationoverhead and reliability of the system. The choice of a specificsolution remains a decision made by the system-designer.