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Record Nr.

UNISA996547956703316

Autore

Li Xiaowei

Titolo

Built-in fault-tolerant computing paradigm for resilient large-scale chip design : a self-test, self-diagnosis, and self-repair-based approach / / Xiaowei Li, Guihai Yan, and Cheng Liu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gateway East, Singapore : , : Springer, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

981-19-8551-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 pages)

Disciplina

004.2

Soggetti

Fault-tolerant computing

Integrated circuits - Masks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Fault-tolerant general circuits with 3S -- Chapter 3: Fault-tolerant general purposed processors with 3S -- Chapter 4: Fault-tolerant network-on-chip with 3S -- Chapter 5: Fault-tolerant deep learning processors with 3S -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

With the end of Dennard scaling and Moore’s law, IC chips, especially large-scale ones, now face more reliability challenges, and reliability has become one of the mainstay merits of VLSI designs. In this context, this book presents a built-in on-chip fault-tolerant computing paradigm that seeks to combine fault detection, fault diagnosis, and error recovery in large-scale VLSI design in a unified manner so as to minimize resource overhead and performance penalties. Following this computing paradigm, we propose a holistic solution based on three key components: self-test, self-diagnosis and self-repair, or “3S” for short. We then explore the use of 3S for general IC designs, general-purpose processors, network-on-chip (NoC) and deep learning accelerators, and present prototypes to demonstrate how 3S responds to in-field silicon degradation and recovery under various runtime faults caused by aging, process variations, or radical particles. Moreover, we demonstrate that 3S not only offers a powerful backbone for various on-chip fault-tolerant designs and implementations, but also has



farther-reaching implications such as maintaining graceful performance degradation, mitigating the impact of verification blind spots, and improving chip yield. This book is the outcome of extensive fault-tolerant computing research pursued at the State Key Lab of Processors, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences over the past decade. The proposed built-in on-chip fault-tolerant computing paradigm has been verified in a broad range of scenarios, from small processors in satellite computers to large processors in HPCs. Hopefully, it will provide an alternative yet effective solution to the growing reliability challenges for large-scale VLSI designs. .