Soft error tolerant Content Addressable Memories (CAMs) using error detection codes and duplication

被引:4
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作者
Maestro, Juan Antonio [1 ]
Reviriego, Pedro [1 ]
Baeg, Sanghyeon [2 ]
Wen, ShiJie [3 ]
Wong, Richard [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Antonio Nebrija, Madrid 28040, Spain
[2] Hanyang Univ, Sch Elect Engn & Comp Sci, Seoul, South Korea
[3] Cisco Syst Inc, Component Engn Grp, San Jose, CA 95134 USA
关键词
Error detection codes; Content Address Memories (CAMs); Soft errors; Reliability; RELIABILITY;
D O I
10.1016/j.micpro.2013.10.003
中图分类号
TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
Soft Errors are becoming a major concern for modern computing systems. Memories are one of the elements affected by soft errors, which cause bitflips in some of the cells. A number of techniques such as the use of Error Correction Codes (ECCs), interleaving or scrubbing are utilized to mitigate the effects of soft errors on memories. Content Addressable Memories (CAMs) pose additional challenges, as many of those protection techniques are not applicable to CAMs. In this paper, a novel protection technique for CAMs is proposed, showing a convenient way to tackle false positives and negatives, and quantitatively studying the achieved benefit in reliability. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:1103 / 1107
页数:5
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