FPGA-based reconfigurable systems allow the online adaptation to dynamically changing runtime requirements. However, the reliability of modern FPGAs is threatened by latent defects and aging effects. Hence, it is mandatory to ensure the reliable operation of the FPGA’s reconfigurable fabric. This can be achieved by periodic or on-demand online testing. In this paper, a system-integrated, transparent structural online test method for runtime reconfigurable systems is proposed. The required tests are scheduled like functional workloads, and thorough optimizations of the test overhead reduce the performance impact. The proposed scheme has been implemented on a reconfigurable system. The results demonstrate that thorough testing of the reconfigurable fabric can be achieved at negligible performance impact on the application.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 AbdelBBIKZHW2012
%A Abdelfattah, Mohamed S.
%A Bauer, Lars
%A Braun, Claus
%A Imhof, Michael E.
%A Kochte, Michael A.
%A Zhang, Hongyan
%A Henkel, Jörg
%A Wunderlich, Hans-Joachim
%B Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium (IOLTS'12)
%D 2012
%I IEEE Computer Society
%K DFG-SPP-1500 FPGA OTERA architectures fault-tolerance myown online reconfigurable reliability test
%P 37--42
%R http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IOLTS.2012.6313838
%T Transparent Structural Online Test for Reconfigurable Systems
%X FPGA-based reconfigurable systems allow the online adaptation to dynamically changing runtime requirements. However, the reliability of modern FPGAs is threatened by latent defects and aging effects. Hence, it is mandatory to ensure the reliable operation of the FPGA’s reconfigurable fabric. This can be achieved by periodic or on-demand online testing. In this paper, a system-integrated, transparent structural online test method for runtime reconfigurable systems is proposed. The required tests are scheduled like functional workloads, and thorough optimizations of the test overhead reduce the performance impact. The proposed scheme has been implemented on a reconfigurable system. The results demonstrate that thorough testing of the reconfigurable fabric can be achieved at negligible performance impact on the application.
@inproceedings{AbdelBBIKZHW2012,
abstract = {FPGA-based reconfigurable systems allow the online adaptation to dynamically changing runtime requirements. However, the reliability of modern FPGAs is threatened by latent defects and aging effects. Hence, it is mandatory to ensure the reliable operation of the FPGA’s reconfigurable fabric. This can be achieved by periodic or on-demand online testing. In this paper, a system-integrated, transparent structural online test method for runtime reconfigurable systems is proposed. The required tests are scheduled like functional workloads, and thorough optimizations of the test overhead reduce the performance impact. The proposed scheme has been implemented on a reconfigurable system. The results demonstrate that thorough testing of the reconfigurable fabric can be achieved at negligible performance impact on the application.},
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author = {Abdelfattah, Mohamed S. and Bauer, Lars and Braun, Claus and Imhof, Michael E. and Kochte, Michael A. and Zhang, Hongyan and Henkel, Jörg and Wunderlich, Hans-Joachim},
biburl = {https://puma.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/bibtex/2c516edd5847d5ec7673edb8f6184b327/clausbraun},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium (IOLTS'12)},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IOLTS.2012.6313838},
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keywords = {DFG-SPP-1500 FPGA OTERA architectures fault-tolerance myown online reconfigurable reliability test},
pages = {37--42},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
timestamp = {2018-03-19T15:23:21.000+0100},
title = {{Transparent Structural Online Test for Reconfigurable Systems}},
year = 2012
}
