The Soft Error Rate (SER) is expressed as Failure-in-Time (FIT) units, defined as one soft error occurrence every billion hours of operation.Often SEUmitigation is not required because of the low chance of occurrence. However, for highly complex systems, such as with multiple high-density components, error rate may be a significant system design factor. If your system includes multiple FPGAS an...

Designing low overhead mechanisms for improving soft error reliability will be a key requirement at future technologies. The slack of an instruction is the number of cycles it can be delayed without extending the execution time. We make the observation that while the slack cycles do not affect execution time, they add to the total number of program cycles vulnerable to soft errors. In this pape...

Most watermarking techniques rely on redundancy where signature bits are encoded in a su$ciently large amount of sites for robustness against distortions and attacks while the watermark energy is kept low enough to remain imperceptible. The goal of this paper is to explore some strategies for exploiting this redundancy using error correcting codes. In some watermarking techniques bits are extra...

In this paper, we present a low-complexity soft detection and soft decoding magnetic disk drive read channel with a modified soft output signal space detector (SD) which uses 3D-110 equalization and an error/erasure decoding Reed Solomon (RS) code. The detector determines Max-Log reliability information for intersymbol interference (ISI) channels with stationary white and colored noise. It can ...

Current trends in device scaling continue to cause an increasing risk of transient faults in microprocessors due to high energy strikes from radiated particles. In this work, we present a thorough microarchitectural analysis of the effects of soft errors on a production-level Verilog implementation of an ARM926EJ-S core. We examine the propagation of faults occurring in both sequential state el...

Error detection and correction plays a very important role in data communication. Various codes such as convolutional and block codes are available for the purpose of error detection and correction. Among the block codes Reed-Solomon code provides several advantages. Reed-Solomon codes are powerful error-correcting codes that finds wide applications in many fields. The soft-decision decoding of...

In late-age silicon, soft errors become an issue even for low-margin products. Since classical hardening techniques are associated with costs which may not be acceptable for such ICs, selective hardening which targets only a subset of all possible soft errors has been suggested. We propose a soft error selection method based on severity of an error’s impact on system behavior. Some soft errors ...

By 2011, the Integrated Circuit(IC) feature sizes are expected to be reduced to 22nm from present day 45nm, and the soft error rate will increase by 3 to 4 orders of magnitude (from one per year to one per hour). International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors(ITRS) indicates that techniques for mitigating soft errors are crucial for future generations of Integrated Circuits. Soft errors ar...

the concept of soft sets, introduced by molodtsov [20] is a mathematicaltool for dealing with uncertainties, that is free from the difficultiesthat have troubled the traditional theoretical approaches. in this paper, weapply the notion of the soft sets of molodtsov to the theory of hilbert algebras.the notion of soft hilbert (abysmal and deductive) algebras, soft subalgebras,soft abysms and sof...