A reconfigurable stochastic architecture for highly reliable computing

Proceedings of the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, GLSVLSI

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 315-320

  Li, Xin ^a   Qian, Weikang ^a   Riedel, Marc D ^a   Bazargan, Kia ^a   Lilja, David J ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Reconfigurable architecture; Reliable computing; Stochastic logic

Indexed keywords

BIT-FLIPS; CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS; DIGITAL CIRCUITRY; HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; NEW APPROACHES; PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS; RANDOM FLUCTUATION; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURE; RELIABLE COMPUTING; SOFT ERROR; SPEED-UPS; STOCHASTIC LOGIC;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ERROR CORRECTION; FUNCTIONS; HARDWARE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAKES;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 70350584618     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1531542.1531615     Document Type: Conference Paper

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