System-level effects of soft errors in uncore components

H Cho, E Cheng, T Shepherd… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The effects of soft errors in processor cores have been widely studied. However, little has
been published about soft errors in uncore components, such as the memory subsystem and …

Understanding soft errors in uncore components

H Cho, CY Cher, T Shepherd, S Mitra - Proceedings of the 52Nd Annual …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
The effects of soft errors in processor cores have been widely studied. However, little has
been published about soft errors in uncore components, such as memory subsystem and I/O …

A framework for correction of multi-bit soft errors in L2 caches based on redundancy

K Bhattacharya, N Ranganathan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the continuous decrease in the minimum feature size and increase in the chip density
due to technology scaling, on-chip L2 caches are becoming increasingly susceptible to multi …

Self-adaptive data caches for soft-error reliability

S Wang, J Hu, SG Ziavras - IEEE Transactions on Computer …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft-error induced reliability problems have become a major challenge in designing new
generation microprocessors. Due to the on-chip caches' dominant share in die area and …

[PDF][PDF] Mitigating multi-bit soft errors in L1 caches using last-store prediction

BT Gold, M Ferdman, B Falsafi… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - users.ece.cmu.edu
Recent studies suggest that the rate of spatial multi-bit soft errors will increase with future
technology scaling. Unfortunately, multi-bit errors cannot be effectively mitigated with …

Robust register caching: An energy-efficient circuit-level technique to combat soft errors in embedded processors

M Fazeli, A Namazi, SG Miremadi - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a cost-efficient technique to jointly use circuit-and architecture-level
techniques to protect an embedded processor's register file against soft errors. The basic …

Correction prediction: Reducing error correction latency for on-chip memories

H Duwe, X Jian, R Kumar - 2015 IEEE 21st International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The reliability of on-chip memories (eg, caches) determines their minimum operating voltage
(V min) and, therefore, the power these memories consume. A strong error correction …

A strategy for soft error reduction in multi core designs

R Hyman, K Bhattacharya… - 2009 IEEE International …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the continuous decrease in the minimum feature size and increase in the chip density,
modern processors are being increasingly susceptible to soft errors. In the past, the …

Area-efficient error protection for caches

S Kim - Proceedings of the Design Automation & Test in …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to increasing concern about various errors, current processors adopt error protection
mechanisms. Especially, protecting L2/L3 caches incur as much as 12.5% area overhead …

Flexible cache error protection using an ECC FIFO

DH Yoon, M Erez - Proceedings of the Conference on High Performance …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
We present ECC FIFO, a mechanism enabling two-tiered last-level cache error protection
using an arbitrarily strong tier-2 code without increasing on-chip storage. Instead of adding …