Beschreibung
Design of Systems on a Chip: Design&Test is the second of two volumes addressing the design challenges associated with new generations of the semiconductor technology. The various chapters are the compilations of tutorials presented at workshops in the recent years by prominent authors from all over the world. Technology, productivity and quality are the main aspects under consideration to establish the major requirements for the design and test of upcoming systems on a chip. In particular this second book include contributions on three different, but complementary axes: core design, computer-aided design tools and test methods. A collection of chapters deal with the heterogeneity aspect of core designs, showing the diversity of parts that may share the same substrate in a state-of-the-art system on a chip. The second part of the book discusses CAD in three different levels of design abstraction, from system level to physical design. The third part deals with test methods. The topic is addressed from different viewpoints: in terms of chip complexity, test is discussed from the core and system prospective; in terms of signal heterogeneity, the digital, mixed-signal and microsystem prospective are considered. Faulttolerance in integrated circuits is not an exclusive concern regarding space designers or highlyreliable application engineers. Rather, designers of next generation products must cope with reduced margin noises due to technological advances. The continuous evolution of the fabrication technology process of semiconductor components, in terms of transistor geometry shrinking, power supply, speed, and logic density, has significantly reduced the reliability of very deep submicron integrated circuits, in face of the various internal and external sources of noise. The very popular Field Programmable Gate Arrays, customizable by SRAM cells, are a consequence of the integrated circuit evolution with millions of memory cells to implement the logic, embedded memories, routing, and more recently with embedded microprocessors cores. These reprogrammable systemsonchip platforms must be faulttolerant to cope with present days requirements. This book discusses faulttolerance techniques for SRAMbased Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). It starts by showing the model of the problem and the upset effects in the programmable architecture. In the sequence, it shows the main fault tolerance techniques used nowadays to protect integrated circuits against errors. A large set of methods for designing fault tolerance systems in SRAMbased FPGAs is described. Some presented techniques are based on developing a new faulttolerant architecture with new robustness FPGA elements. Other techniques are based on protecting the highlevel hardware description before the synthesis in the FPGA. The reader has the flexibility of choosing the most suitable faulttolerance technique for its project and to compare a set of fault toleranttechniques for programmable logic applications.
Autorenporträt
Ricardo Reis is a former president of the Brazilian Computer Society and former vice-president of the Brazilian Microelectronics Society. He is now trustee of both societies. He is a trustee and former vice-president of the International Federation for Information Processing, IFIP. He received the Silver Core Award from IFIP. He is member of IFIP TC10 and WG 10.5. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems, JICS. Ricardo is also Member of the Editorial Board Latin America liaison of the IEEE D&T as Latin America liaison. He contributed to the organizing and program committees of several a large number of international conferences (like VLSI-SoC, ISVLSI, ISSS+CODES, PATMOS, RAW, LATW, SBCCI, IFIP World Congress, ) and he is a founder of the SBCCI conference series (Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design). He is also Editor of several books.
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