Abstract

This paper presents a new model for analyzing the repairability of reconfigurable system-on-chip (RSoC) instrumentation with the repair process. It exploits the connectivity of the interconnected cores in which unreliability factors due to both neighboring cores and the interconnect structure are taken into account. Based on the connectivity, two RSoC repair scheduling strategies, Minimum Number of Interconnections First (I-MIN) and Minimum Number of Neighboring Cores First (C-MIN), are proposed. Two other scheduling strategies, Maximum Number of Interconnections First (I-MAX) and Maximum Number of Neighboring cores First (C-MAX), are also introduced and analyzed to further explore the impact of connectivity-based repair scheduling on the overall repairability of RSoCs. Extensive parametric simulations demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed RSoC repair scheduling strategies; thereby manufacturing ultimately reliable RSoC instrumentation can be achieved.

Department(s)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Keywords and Phrases

65; C-MAX; C-MIN; Configurability; I-MAX; I-MIN; Reconfigurable System-on-Chip (RSoC); RSoC Instrumentation; RSoC Repair Scheduling; Connectivity; Integrated Circuit Reliability; Interconnect Structure; Minimum Number of Interconnections First; Minimum Number of Neighboring Cores First; Reconfigurable Architectures; Reliability; Repair; Repairability; Scheduling; System-On-Chip

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

0018-9456; 1557-9662

Document Type

Article - Journal

Document Version

Final Version

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text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2004 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Dec 2004

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