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Architecture Design for Soft Errors

  • 1st Edition - February 22, 2008
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Shubu Mukherjee
  • Language: English

Architecture Design for Soft Errors provides a comprehensive description of the architectural techniques to tackle the soft error problem. It covers the new methodologies for quant… Read more

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Description

Architecture Design for Soft Errors provides a comprehensive description of the architectural techniques to tackle the soft error problem. It covers the new methodologies for quantitative analysis of soft errors as well as novel, cost-effective architectural techniques to mitigate them.

To provide readers with a better grasp of the broader problem definition and solution space, this book also delves into the physics of soft errors and reviews current circuit and software mitigation techniques. There are a number of different ways this book can be read or used in a course: as a complete course on architecture design for soft errors covering the entire book; a short course on architecture design for soft errors; and as a reference book on classical fault-tolerant machines.

This book is recommended for practitioners in semi-conductor industry, researchers and developers in computer architecture, advanced graduate seminar courses on soft errors, and (iv) as a reference book for undergraduate courses in computer architecture.

Key features

  • Helps readers build-in fault tolerance to the billions of microchips produced each year, all of which are subject to soft errors
  • Shows readers how to quantify their soft error reliability
  • Provides state-of-the-art techniques to protect against soft errors

Readership

Practitioners in semi-conductor industry, researchers & developers in computer architecture, advanced graduate seminar courses on soft errors, and (iv) as a reference book for undergraduate courses in
computer architecture. I will describe many basic and advanced
techniques to make this book of interest to this broad audience.

Table of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Device- and Circuit-Level Modeling, Measurement, and Mitigation
Chapter 3: Architectural Vulnerability Analysis
Chapter 4: Advanced Architectural Vulnerability Analysis
Chapter 5: Error Coding Techniques
Chapter 6: Fault Detection via Redundant Execution
Chapter 7: Hardware Error Recovery
Chapter 8: Software Detection and Recovery

Review quotes

"Dr. Shubu Mukherjee's book is a welcome surprise: books by architecture leaders in major companies are few and far between. Written from the viewpoint of a working engineer, the book describes sources of soft errors and solutions involving device, logic, and architecture design to reduce the effects of soft errors."—Max Baron, Microprocessor Report, May 27, 2008

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 22, 2008
  • Language: English

About the author

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Shubu Mukherjee

Affiliations and expertise
Principal Engineer and Director, SPEARS (Simulation & Pathfinding of Efficient and Reliable Systems): Intel

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