A Built-in Single Event Upsets Detector for Sequential Cells

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 32 - Trang 11-20 - 2015
Yuanqing Li1, Haibin Wang1, Lixiang Li2,3, Li Chen1, Rui Liu1, Mo Chen1
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
3TSMC Design Technology Canada, Kanata, Canada

Tóm tắt

A built-in single event upsets (SEUs) detector is presented in this paper. This detector utilizes charge sharing to detect an SEU in a sequential cell, and the detection process is analyzed through Accuro simulations in a 65 nm technology. The normal operation of this detector would not induce obvious performance degradation of the target circuit. Through using this detector, error correction can be achieved based on dual modular redundancy (DMR) while the related power is about 20.4 % lower than that induced by triple modular redundancy (TMR).

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