Title

Evolutionary Fault Recovery In A Virtex Fpga Using A Representation That Incorporates Routing

Abstract

Most evolutionary approaches to fault recovery in FPGA focus on evolving alternative logic configurations as opposed to evolving the intra-cell routing. Since the majority of transistors in a typical FPGA are dedicated to interconnect, nearly 80% according to one estimate, evolutionary fault-recovery systems should benefit by accommodating routing. In this paper, we propose an evolutionary fault-recovery system employing a genetic representation that takes into account both logic and routing configurations. Experiments were run using a software model of the Xilinx Virtex FPGA. We report that using four Virtex combinational logic blocks, we were able to evolve a 100% accurate quadrature decoder finite state machine in the presence of a stuck-at-zero fault. Evolutionary experiments with the hardware in the loop have begun and we discuss the preliminary results.

Publication Date

1-1-2003

Publication Title

Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2003

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2003.1213316

Socpus ID

84947217176 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84947217176

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