FastTag: A technique to protect cache tags against soft errors

IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 935-937

  Reviriego, Pedro ^a   Pontarelli, Salvatore ^b   Ottavi, Marco ^b   Maestro, Juan Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD ANTONIO DE NEBRIJA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

cache memory; error correction codes; fault tolerance; reliability; Soft errors

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; CODES (SYMBOLS); DECODING; ERROR CORRECTION; ERRORS; FAULT TOLERANCE; RADIATION HARDENING; RELIABILITY;

CIRCUIT COMPLEXITY; CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; ERROR CORRECTION CODES; EVALUATION RESULTS; MODERN PROCESSORS; RELEVANT COMPONENTS; SINGLE ERROR CORRECTIONS; SOFT ERROR;

CACHE MEMORY;

EID: 84930935344     PISSN: 15304388     EISSN: 15582574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDMR.2014.2332616     Document Type: Article

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