Diagnostics and Reconfiguration of Programmable Circuits

Lecturer:

Neurčen (gar.)

Tutor:

Neurčen (gar.)

Supervisor:

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Synopsis:

The subject is aimed to help PhD students to understand better methods of reliability and availability improvement of SOC and NOC circuits built on FPGAs and ASICs.

Requirements:

Students have to present a lshort lecture dealing with the project results. After the presentation a discussion about further possibility improvements takes part.

Syllabus of lectures:

Building blocks in FPGAs, their main fault mechanisms. External FPGA tests, their realization and embedding int the life cycle of the circuit. Embedded diagnostic in FPGAs, LSFR-based test generators, test result evaluation (embedded analyzers, MISR). Implementation of self-checked and self-tested in FPGAs. Selection of safety codes, design of a completely self-checked code checker. Conditions for automatic configuration after failure, the choice of type and size of interchangeable modules. Setting redundancy level in dependence on fault intensity and the required reliability parameters.

Syllabus of tutorials:

Students solve individual project. The project is chosen in such a way that it can help students to improve reliability and availability of their designs.

Study Objective:

Study materials:

Novák, O, Gramatová, E., Ubar, R.: Handbook of Electronic Testing. Vydavatelství ČVUT, srpen 2005, ISBN 80-01-03318-X, 405 stran

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Doctoral studies, daily studies (compulsory elective course)
• Doctoral studies, combined studies (compulsory elective course)
• Doctoral studies, structured daily studies (compulsory elective course)
• Doctoral studies, structured combined studies (compulsory elective course)