Cross-layer resilience in low-voltage digital systems: Key insights

Eric Cheng, Jacob Abraham, Pradip Bose, Alper Buyuktosunoglu, Keith Campbell, Deming Chen, Cheng Yong Cher, Hyungmin Cho, Binh Le, Klas Lilja, Shahrzad Mirkhani, Kevin Skadron, Mircea Stan, Lukasz Szafaryn, Christos Vezyrtzis, Subhasish Mitra

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Abstract

CLEAR (Cross-Layer Exploration for Architecting Resilience) is a first of its kind framework which overcomes a major challenge in the design of digital systems that are resilient to hardware errors: achieve desired resilience targets at low cost (energy, power, execution time, area) by combining resilience techniques across various layers of the system stack (circuit, logic, architecture, software, algorithm). CLEAR automatically and systematically explores the large space of resilience techniques and their combinations, derives cost-effective solutions, provides guidelines for designing new techniques, and offers insights into how to design cost-effective digital systems resilient to hardware errors: 1. circuit-level techniques are crucial; 2. application-level guidance is essential; 3. existing architecture and software techniques are generally expensive or provide too little resilience; 4. some previously published techniques suffer from inaccurate analysis, leading to incorrect conclusions; 5. cost-effective protection from multiple error sources is achieved by combining techniques targeting each specific error source.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 35th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, ICCD 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages593-596
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781538622544
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 22 2017
Event35th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, ICCD 2017 - Boston, United States
Duration: Nov 5 2017Nov 8 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - 35th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, ICCD 2017

Other

Other35th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, ICCD 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoston
Period11/5/1711/8/17

Keywords

  • Cross-layer resilience
  • Soft errors
  • Voltage noise

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Hardware and Architecture

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