TY - GEN
T1 - Full-hardware triple modular and penta-modular redundancies using a high frequency majority voting operation
AU - Watanabe, Masaki
AU - Watanabe, Minoru
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/11
Y1 - 2019/11
N2 - Correct operations of embedded systems are expected under strong radiation conditions prevailing in space and in nuclear power plants. In strong radiation environments, since soft errors frequently occur in embedded systems, majority voting operations are always used to remove soft errors. However, in strong radiation environments, even if majority voting operations are implemented in software code, soft errors cannot be removed perfectly since software majority voting operations are conducted at low frequency. Therefore, we propose full-hardware triple-modular and penta-modular redundancies using a high-frequency majority voting operation. The soft-error tolerance of a system depends on the frequency of the majority voting operation. Full-hardware triple-modular and penta-modular redundancies can achieve high-speed majority voting operations of over 100 MHz. This paper presents experimentally obtained results of the radiation tolerances of triple-modular and penta-modular redundancies against alpha particles using a 4 MBq Am241 radiation source.
AB - Correct operations of embedded systems are expected under strong radiation conditions prevailing in space and in nuclear power plants. In strong radiation environments, since soft errors frequently occur in embedded systems, majority voting operations are always used to remove soft errors. However, in strong radiation environments, even if majority voting operations are implemented in software code, soft errors cannot be removed perfectly since software majority voting operations are conducted at low frequency. Therefore, we propose full-hardware triple-modular and penta-modular redundancies using a high-frequency majority voting operation. The soft-error tolerance of a system depends on the frequency of the majority voting operation. Full-hardware triple-modular and penta-modular redundancies can achieve high-speed majority voting operations of over 100 MHz. This paper presents experimentally obtained results of the radiation tolerances of triple-modular and penta-modular redundancies against alpha particles using a 4 MBq Am241 radiation source.
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U2 - 10.1109/APCCAS47518.2019.8953122
DO - 10.1109/APCCAS47518.2019.8953122
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85078695287
T3 - Proceedings - APCCAS 2019: 2019 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems: Innovative CAS Towards Sustainable Energy and Technology Disruption
SP - 177
EP - 181
BT - Proceedings - APCCAS 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 15th Annual IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, APCCAS 2019
Y2 - 11 November 2019 through 14 November 2019
ER -
