Scrubbing away transients and Jiggling around the permanent: Long survival of FPGA systems through evolutionary self-repair

Proceedings - 10th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, IOLTS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 155-160

  Garvie, Miguel ^a   Thompson, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIGURABLE LOGIOC BLOCKS (CLB); JIGGLING SYSTEM; MICROPROCESSOR; SINGLE EVENT UPSETS (SEU);

COMBINATORIAL CIRCUITS; COSTS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCIES; LOGIC CIRCUITS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY; SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS;

EID: 10444222527     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OLT.2004.1319674     Document Type: Conference Paper

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