DRAFT: An On-line Fault Detection Method for Dynamic and Partially Reconfigurable FPGAs

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2001

Authors

Manuel Gericota (Author) Other; Gustavo Costa Alves (Author) Other; Miguel L. Silva (Author) Other; José Martins Ferreira (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings of the 7th Internatinal On-Line Testing Workshop IOLTW'01

Pages: 34-36

7th Internatinal On-Line Testing Workshop IOLTW'01

Giardini Naxos, Taormina, Itália, 9 a 11 de Julho de 2001

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Scientific classification

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Electrical engineering

FOS: Social sciences > Educational sciences

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DOI: 10.1109/OLT.2001.937814

Abstract (EN): Reconfigurable systems have benefited of the novel partial dynamic reconfiguration features of recent FPGA devices. Enabling the concurrent reconfiguration without disturbing system operation, this technology has raised a new test challenge: to assure a continuously fault-free operation, independently of the circuit present after many reconfiguration processes, testing the FPGA without disturbing the whole system operation. Re-using the IEEE 1149.1 infrastructure, already widely used for In-System Programming, and exploiting the same dynamic and partially reconfigurable features underlying this test challenge, this paper develops a new structural concurrent test approach able to detect faults and introduce fault tolerance features, without disturbing system operation, in the field and throughout its lifetime.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 3