Reliability is becoming a major design concern in contemporary microprocessors since soft error rate is increasing due to technology scaling. Therefore, design time system vulnerability estimation is of paramount importance. ...

Modern processors incorporate complex arithmetic units that can work with large word-lengths. Those units are useful for applications that require high precision. There are however, many applications for which the use of ...

Fault tolerance has become a fundamental concern in computer design, in addition to performance and power. Although several error detection schemes have been proposed to discover a faulty core in the system, these proposals ...

A novel method to protect a system against errors resulting from soft errors occurring in the virtual address (VA) storing structures such as translation lookaside buffers (TLB), physical register file (PRF) and the program ...