FPGAs and Parallel Architectures for Aerospace Applications
Overview
- Editors:
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Fernanda Kastensmidt
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Instituto de Informatica, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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Paolo Rech
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Instituto de Informática, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Discusses features and drawbacks of reconfigurability methods for FPGAs, focused on aerospace applications
- Explains how radiation from space causes soft errors in FPGAs and how to mitigate them
- Enables readers to qualify the target application on FPGA under radiation and by fault injection
About this book
This book introduces the concepts of soft errors in FPGAs, as well as the motivation for using commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) FPGAs in mission-critical and remote applications, such as aerospace. The authors describe the effects of radiation in FPGAs, present a large set of soft-error mitigation techniques that can be applied in these circuits, as well as methods for qualifying these circuits under radiation. Coverage includes radiation effects in FPGAs, fault-tolerant techniques for FPGAs, use of COTS FPGAs in aerospace applications, experimental data of FPGAs under radiation, FPGA embedded processors under radiation and fault injection in FPGAs. Since dedicated parallel processing architectures such as GPUs have become more desirable in aerospace applications due to high computational power, GPU analysis under radiation is also discussed.
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Introduction
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- Fernanda Kastensmidt, Paolo Rech
Pages 3-17
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Applications
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- Glauberto L. A. Albuquerque, Manoel J. M. Carvalho, Carlos Valderrama
Pages 21-32
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- Ediz Cetin, Oliver Diessel, Tuo Li, Jude A. Ambrose, Thomas Fisk, Sri Parameswaran et al.
Pages 33-46
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SRAM-Based FPGAs
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- H. Guzmán-Miranda, J. Barrientos-Rojas, M. A. Aguirre
Pages 49-59
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- Nathan A. Harward, Michael R. Gardiner, Luke W. Hsiao, Michael J. Wirthlin
Pages 61-74
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- Shane T. Fleming, David B. Thomas, Felix Winterstein
Pages 75-90
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- Michael Wirthlin, Alex Harding
Pages 91-101
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- Jimmy Tarrillo, Fernanda Lima Kastensmidt
Pages 103-119
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- Lucas A. Tambara, Jimmy Tarrillo, Fernanda L. Kastensmidt, Luca Sterpone
Pages 121-133
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- Jorge Tonfat, Jimmy Tarrillo, Lucas Tambara, Fernanda Lima Kastensmidt, Ricardo Reis
Pages 135-151
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Flash-Based FPGAs
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Front Matter
Pages 153-153
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- Jih-Jong Wang, Nadia Rezzak, Durwyn DSilva, Chang-Kai Huang, Stephen Varela, Victor Nguyen et al.
Pages 155-174
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- Carlos Colodro-Conde, Rafael Toledo-Moreo
Pages 189-200
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- Lucas A. Tambara, Marcelo S. Lubaszewski, Tiago R. Balen, Paolo Rech, Fernanda L. Kastensmidt, Christopher Frost
Pages 201-216
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Embedded Processors in System-on-Chips
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Front Matter
Pages 217-217
Editors and Affiliations
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Instituto de Informatica, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Fernanda Kastensmidt
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Instituto de Informática, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Paolo Rech
About the editors
Fernanda Lima Kastensmidt joined the Instituto de Informática faculty in 2005. She received a PhD in 2003 and MSE in 1999 both in Computer Science from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Dr. Fernanda’s current research focuses on soft error mitigation techniques for SRAM-based FPGAs and integrated circuits, such as microprocessors, memories and network-on-chips (NoCs), and the analysis and modeling of radiation effects in those circuits. Paolo Rech is an Adjunct Professor for the Instituto de Informática.