Error Coverage, Reliability and Cost Analysis of Fault Tolerance Techniques for 32-bit Memories used on Space Missions

DCC Freitas, D Mota, D Simões… - … on Quality Electronic …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the supply voltage decreases, the sensitivity of the integrated circuits to radiation
increases dramatically, affecting various components such as memory cells. This paper …

PCoSA: A product error correction code for use in memory devices targeting space applications

D Freitas, D Mota, R Goerl, C Marcon, F Vargas… - Integration, 2020 - Elsevier
The radiation sensitivity of integrated memory cells increases dramatically as the supply
voltage decreases. Although there are some Error Correcting Code (ECC) studies to prevent …

A survey on two-dimensional Error Correction Codes applied to fault-tolerant systems

D Freitas, C Marcon, J Silveira, L Naviner… - Microelectronics …, 2022 - Elsevier
The number of memory faults operating in radiation environments increases with the
electronic device miniaturization. One-dimensional (1D) Error Correction Codes (ECCs) are …

OPCoSA: an Optimized Product Code for space applications

D Freitas, J Silveira, C Marcon, L Naviner, J Mota - Integration, 2022 - Elsevier
The integrated circuit shrinkage increases the probability and the number of errors in
memories due to the increase in the sensitivity to electromagnetic radiation. Critical …

A Triple Burst Error Correction Based on Region Selection Code

F Silva, AC Pinheiro, JAN Silveira… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The evolution of microelectronics boosts more scalable and complex circuit designs,
providing high processing speed and greater storage capacity. However, reliability issues …

Radiation-hardness-by-design latch-based triple modular redundancy flip-flops

O Schrape, A Breitenreiter, C Schulze… - 2021 IEEE 12th Latin …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper presents an alternative Single-Event Effect (SEE)-tolerant Triple Modular
Redundancy (TMR) circuit topology for space applications. The proposed D-flip-flop circuit …

Efficient implementations of multiple bit burst error correction for memories

JQ Li, LY Xiao, J Guo, XB Cao - 2018 14th IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft error induced by space radiation particles can cause serious threat for memories that
are widely used in the electronic system of aerospace task. This can corrupt the stored data …

Research on EDAC schemes for memory in space applications

M Chen, C Guo, L Chen, W Li, F Zhang, X Hu, J Xu - Electronics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Memory used for storing the configuration bitstream of field programmable gate array in
space applications often encounters single event upset problems, which may disrupt the …

A Method to Design 5-Bit Burst Error Correction Code against the Multiple Bit Upset (MBU) in Memories

JQ Li, LY Xiao, L He, HT Wu - 2019 IEEE 13th International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Space applications face severe challenges from soft errors caused by cosmic rays. Soft
errors can change the storage state of memories used in electronic system, leading to …

A survey of fault tolerance hardware architecture

K Liu, Y Li, L Ouyang - 2021 International Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fault tolerance is gaining more and more attention for the increasing need of reliability in
industrial, automotive and aerospace applications. This paper presents a survey of the fault …