ENHANCING FPGA ROBUSTNESS VIA GENERIC MONITORING IP CORES

Alexander Biedermann, Thorsten Piper, Lars Patzina, Sven Patzina, Sorin A. Huss, Andy Schürr, Neeraj Suri

2011

Abstract

Today, state of the art technology allows a very dense integration of embedded HW/SW designs. As a consequence, more errors are introduced in these circuits that have to be observed during run-time. Adding monitors to a design enables the recognition of and the reaction to these threats, but, usually, monitors have to be developed for every individual FPGA design. Our approach provides generic IP cores that permit the monitoring of arbitrary hardware modules. Furthermore, by providing a central monitoring module, statements about the behaviour of the entire system can be made.

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Biedermann A., Piper T., Patzina L., Patzina S., A. Huss S., Schürr A. and Suri N. (2011). ENHANCING FPGA ROBUSTNESS VIA GENERIC MONITORING IP CORES . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS, ISBN 978-989-8425-48-5, pages 379-386. DOI: 10.5220/0003353503790386


in Bibtex Style

@conference{peccs11,
author={Alexander Biedermann and Thorsten Piper and Lars Patzina and Sven Patzina and Sorin A. Huss and Andy Schürr and Neeraj Suri},
title={ENHANCING FPGA ROBUSTNESS VIA GENERIC MONITORING IP CORES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,},
year={2011},
pages={379-386},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003353503790386},
isbn={978-989-8425-48-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,
TI - ENHANCING FPGA ROBUSTNESS VIA GENERIC MONITORING IP CORES
SN - 978-989-8425-48-5
AU - Biedermann A.
AU - Piper T.
AU - Patzina L.
AU - Patzina S.
AU - A. Huss S.
AU - Schürr A.
AU - Suri N.
PY - 2011
SP - 379
EP - 386
DO - 10.5220/0003353503790386