Improving transient memory fault resilience of an H.264 decoder

2010 8th IEEE Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia, ESTIMedia'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 121-130

  Heinig, Andreas ^a   Engel, Michael ^a   Schmoll, Florian ^a   Marwedel, Peter ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO AND VIDEO; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; CROSS-LAYER APPROACH; EMBEDDED APPLICATION; ENERGY CONSIDERATIONS; ERROR CLASSIFICATION; ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION; ERROR INJECTION; ERROR-FREE SYSTEMS; H.264 DECODER; H.264 VIDEO DECODER; HARD REAL-TIME; MEMORY FAULTS; OPERATING SYSTEMS; OPERATING VOLTAGE; SOFT REAL TIME; STRUCTURE SIZES; SYSTEM DEVELOPERS; TIME CONDITION; TIMING PROPERTIES; TRANSIENT FAULTS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DECODING; ERROR DETECTION; FAULT TOLERANCE; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 78651382273     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESTMED.2010.5666989     Document Type: Conference Paper

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