FPGAs and Parallel Architectures for Aerospace Applications

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Radiation Effects and Fault Tolerance Techniques for FPGAs and GPUs

      • Fernanda Kastensmidt, Paolo Rech

      Pages 3-17

3. Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Brazilian Nano-satellite with Reconfigurable SOC GNSS Receiver Tracking Capability

      • Glauberto L. A. Albuquerque, Manoel J. M. Carvalho, Carlos Valderrama

      Pages 21-32

   3. Overview and Investigation of SEU Detection and Recovery Approaches for FPGA-Based Heterogeneous Systems

      • Ediz Cetin, Oliver Diessel, Tuo Li, Jude A. Ambrose, Thomas Fisk, Sri Parameswaran et al.

      Pages 33-46

4. SRAM-Based FPGAs

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47

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   2. A Fault Injection technique oriented to SRAM-FPGAs

      • H. Guzmán-Miranda, J. Barrientos-Rojas, M. A. Aguirre

      Pages 49-59

   3. A Fault Injection System for Measuring Soft Processor Design Sensitivity on Virtex-5 FPGAs

      • Nathan A. Harward, Michael R. Gardiner, Luke W. Hsiao, Michael J. Wirthlin

      Pages 61-74

   4. A Power-Aware Adaptive FDIR Framework Using Heterogeneous System-on-Chip Modules

      • Shane T. Fleming, David B. Thomas, Felix Winterstein

      Pages 75-90

   5. Hybrid Configuration Scrubbing for Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs

      • Michael Wirthlin, Alex Harding

      Pages 91-101

   6. Power Analysis in nMR Systems in SRAM-Based FPGAs

      • Jimmy Tarrillo, Fernanda Lima Kastensmidt

      Pages 103-119

   7. Fault-Tolerant Manager Core for Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration in FPGAs

      • Lucas A. Tambara, Jimmy Tarrillo, Fernanda L. Kastensmidt, Luca Sterpone

      Pages 121-133

   8. Multiple Fault Injection Platform for SRAM-Based FPGA Based on Ground-Level Radiation Experiments

      • Jorge Tonfat, Jimmy Tarrillo, Lucas Tambara, Fernanda Lima Kastensmidt, Ricardo Reis

      Pages 135-151

5. Flash-Based FPGAs

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Radiation Effects in 65 nm Flash-Based Field Programmable Gate Array

      • Jih-Jong Wang, Nadia Rezzak, Durwyn DSilva, Chang-Kai Huang, Stephen Varela, Victor Nguyen et al.

      Pages 155-174

   3. Using C-Slow Retiming in Safety Critical and Low Power Applications

      • Tobias Strauch

      Pages 175-187

   4. Improving the Implementation of EDAC Functions in Radiation-Hardened FPGAs

      • Carlos Colodro-Conde, Rafael Toledo-Moreo

      Pages 189-200

   5. Neutron-Induced Single Event Effect in Mixed-Signal Flash-Based FPGA

      • Lucas A. Tambara, Marcelo S. Lubaszewski, Tiago R. Balen, Paolo Rech, Fernanda L. Kastensmidt, Christopher Frost

      Pages 201-216

6. Embedded Processors in System-on-Chips

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217

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This book introduces the concepts of soft errors in FPGAs, as well as the motivation for using commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) FPGAs in mission-critical and remote applications, such as aerospace. The authors describe the effects of radiation in FPGAs, present a large set of soft-error mitigation techniques that can be applied in these circuits, as well as methods for qualifying these circuits under radiation. Coverage includes radiation effects in FPGAs, fault-tolerant techniques for FPGAs, use of COTS FPGAs in aerospace applications, experimental data of FPGAs under radiation, FPGA embedded processors under radiation and fault injection in FPGAs. Since dedicated parallel processing architectures such as GPUs have become more desirable in aerospace applications due to high computational power, GPU analysis under radiation is also discussed.

• Architecture Design for Soft Errors
• FPGAs and Parallel Architectures for Aerospace Applications
• FPGAs for Mission-Critical Applications
• Radiation Effects on Embedded Systems
• Soft Error Mitigation
• Soft Errors and Fault-Tolerant Design
• Transient Error Mitigation

• Instituto de Informatica, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

  Fernanda Kastensmidt

• Instituto de Informática, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

  Paolo Rech

Fernanda Lima Kastensmidt joined the Instituto de Informática faculty in 2005. She received a PhD in 2003 and MSE in 1999 both in Computer Science from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Dr. Fernanda’s current research focuses on soft error mitigation techniques for SRAM-based FPGAs and integrated circuits, such as microprocessors, memories and network-on-chips (NoCs), and the analysis and modeling of radiation effects in those circuits. Paolo Rech is an Adjunct Professor for the Instituto de Informática.

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