Reliable Communications Using FPGAs in High-Radiation Environments - Part I: Characterization

Reconfigurable radios implemented on FPGAs operating in high-radiation environments are subject to single-event- upsets (SEUs). The traditional mitigation method of applying triple modular redundancy (TMR) to the entire design does not have to be used in this application. This is because the majorit...

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Published in2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications pp. 1 - 5
Main Authors Pratt, B, Fuller, M, Rice, M, Wirthlin, M
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.05.2010
Subjects
Additive noise
Bit error rate
Circuits
Field programmable gate arrays
Hardware
Peer to peer computing
Protection
Redundancy
Single event transient
Single event upset
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ISBN1424464021
9781424464029
ISSN1550-3607
DOI10.1109/ICC.2010.5502571

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Summary:Reconfigurable radios implemented on FPGAs operating in high-radiation environments are subject to single-event- upsets (SEUs). The traditional mitigation method of applying triple modular redundancy (TMR) to the entire design does not have to be used in this application. This is because the majority of the SEUs impact the overall performance (measured by bit error rate) in the same way additive noise does. The results of this paper show which sections must be protected from SEUs and provide a guide for the bit error rate performance versus FPGA area tradeoff as a function of SEU mitigation.
ISBN:1424464021
9781424464029
ISSN:1550-3607
DOI:10.1109/ICC.2010.5502571