Terrestrial-based radiation upsets: A cautionary tale

Proceedings - 13th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, FCCM 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 193-202

  Quinn, Heather ^a   Graham, Paul ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRON RADIATION; TERRESTRIAL-BASED RADIATION;

COSMIC RAYS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADIATION EFFECTS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 33746127333     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FCCM.2005.61     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (28)

1. Top 500. Top 500 supercomputer sites. On Web http://www.top500.org/list/ 2003/11/, Nov 2003.
2. Carl Carmichael, Michael Caffrey, and Anthony Salazar. Correcting single-event upsets through Virtex partial configuration. Technical Report XAPP216, Xilinx, Inc, 2000.
3. Cisco. Increasing network availability: Detecting and correcting network-impacting singe event upset (SEU) parity events. Technical report, Cisco, (Date Unknown).
4. Derek Curd. Single event upset (SEU) detection and correction in Virtex-II Pro devices. Technical Report XAPP673, Xilinx, Inc., 2004.
5. Timothy Dell. A white paper on the benefits of Chipkill-Correct ECC for PC server main memory. Technical report, IBM, 1997.
6. Amr El-Ashmawi and Joel Seely (presenter). Maintaining data integrity in programmable logic in extreme radiation environments through error detection techniques. In The Proceedings of Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices (MAPLD), 2004.
7. Eto et al. Impact of neutron flux on soft errors in MOS memories. In Internation Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), 1998.
8. J. F. Ziegler et al. Ibm experiments in soft fails in computer electronics (1978-1994). Journal of Research and Development, 40(1):3-18, 1996.
9. Jeremy Kepner et al. Deployment of SAR and GMTI signal processing on a Boeing 707 aircraft using pMatlab and a bladed Linux cluster. In Proceedings of High Performance Embedded Computing, pages 25-26, 2004.
10. J.I. Roman-Nieves et al. High altitude compact solid state 95 Ghz cloud radar. In Proceedings of IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), volume 5, pages 2672-2674, June 2002.
11. Joe Faubla, Austin Lesea, and Saar Drimer. The NSEU sensitivity of static latch based FPGAs and flash storage devices. In Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices International Conference, 2004.
12. JEDEC Solid State Technology Association. JEDEC Standard 89: Measurement and Reporting of Alpha Particles and Terrestrial Cosmic Ray-Induced Soft Errors in Semiconductor Devices, August 2001.
13. Eric Johnson, Keith Morgan, Nathan Rollins, Michael Wirthlin, Michael Caffrey, and Paul Graham. Detection of configuration memory upsets causing persistent errors in SRAM-based FPGAs. In Proceedings of the MAPLD Conference, September 2004.
14. Jason Lockhart, personal conversation.
15. Daniel Lyons. Sun screen. On Web http://www.forbes.com, November 2000.
16. Sarah Michalak. Estimation of the expected weekly number of soft errors in QA or QB. Technical Report LA-UR-04-5162, Los Alamos National Labratory, 2004.
17. Eugene Normand. Single event effects in avionics. Technical report, iRoC Technologies, (Date Unknown).
18. M. Rebaudengo, M. Sonza Reorda, and M. Violante. An accurate analysis of the effects of soft errors in the instruction and data caches of a pipelined microprocessor. In The Proceedings of Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE), pages 10602-106007, 2003.
19. P. K. Samudrala, J. Ramos, and S. Katkoori. Selective triple modular redundancy for SEU mitigation in FPGAs. In Military and Aerospace Applications of Programmable Logic and Devices (MAPLD), 2003.
20. Matthew Stettler, Jim Krone, Paul Graham, and Michael Caffrey. Radiation effects and mitigation strategies for modern fpgas. In In Proc. of 10th Annual Workshop for LEG and Future Experiments, 2004.
21. iRoC Technologies. Radiation results of the SER test of Actel, Xilinx, and Altea FPGA instances. On Web: www.actel.com, October 2004.
22. Airforce Technology. U-2 high altitude reconnaissance aircraft (Dragon Lady), USA. On Web: http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/u2/.
23. Xilinx. Spartan-IIE 1.8V FPGA family: Complete data sheet. Technical Report DS077, Xilinx, Inc., 2004.
24. Xilinx. Virtex-4 configuration guide. Technical Report UG071, Xilinx, Inc., 2004.
25. Xilinx. Virtex-4 family overview. Technical Report DS112, Xilinx, Inc., 2004.
26. Xilinx. Virtex-II Pro and Virtex-II Pro X platform FPGAs: Complete data sheet. Technical Report DS083, Xilinx, Inc., 2004.
27. C.C. Yui, G.M. Swift, C. Carlmichael, R. Koga, and J.S. George. SEU mitigation techniques of Xilinx Virtex II FPGAs. In Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC), 2003.
28. J. F. Ziegler. Terrestrial cosmic ray intensities. Journal of Research and Development, 42(1):117-140, 1998.