Error detector placement for soft computation

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Thomas, Anna ^a   Pattabiraman, Karthik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA CORRUPTION; ERROR DETECTORS; MODERN COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS; POWER CONSTRAINTS; SILICON DEVICES; SOFT COMPUTATION; SOFT COMPUTING APPLICATIONS;

DETECTORS; HARDWARE; SOFT COMPUTING;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84883322184     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSN.2013.6575353     Document Type: Conference Paper

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