DRAFT: An On-line Concurrent Test for Partial and Dynamically 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 Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems conference DCIS-01

Pages: 553-558

Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems conference DCIS¿01

Porto, Portugal, 20 a 23 de Novembro de 2001

Scientific classification

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Electrical engineering

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

Other information

Abstract (EN): The use of partial and dynamically reconfigurable FPGAs in reconfigurable systems opens exciting possibilities, since they enable the concurrent reconfiguration of part of the system without interrupting its operation. Nevertheless, larger dies and the use of smaller submicron scales in the manufacturing of this new kind of FPGAs increase the probability of failures after many reconfiguration processes. New methods of test and fault tolerance are therefore required, capable of ensuring system reliability. This paper presents improvements to our RaT Freed Resources technique, a structural concurrent test approach able to detect and diagnose faults without disturbing system operation, throughout its lifetime.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6