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On Dependability of FPGA-Based Evolvable Hardware Systems That Utilize Virtual Reconfigurable Circuits
FPGA, dependability, evolvable hardware, virtual reconfigurable circuit
This paper describes experiments conducted to estimate how the use of (area-demanding) virtual reconfigurable circuits (VRC) influences the dependability of FPGA-based evolvable systems. It is shown that these systems are not so sensitive to faults as their area-demanding implementations could evoke. Evolutionary techniques are utilized to design fault tolerant circuits in a virtual reconfigurable circuit and to perform their automatic functional recovery in case of occurence of faults in a configuration memory of FPGA. All the experiments are performed on models of reconfigurable devices. This paper does not claim that the use of the VRC improves the dependability; it shows how the use of VRCs could influence the dependability.
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB8069, author = "Luk\'{a}\v{s} Sekanina", title = "On Dependability of FPGA-Based Evolvable Hardware Systems That Utilize Virtual Reconfigurable Circuits", pages = "221--228", booktitle = "Computing Frontiers 2006 Conference", year = 2006, location = "New York, US", publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery", ISBN = "1595933026", language = "english", url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/8069" }