SEFUW: SpacE FPGA Users Workshop, 4th Edition

Session

Fault Tolerance Methodologies and Tools

9 Apr 2018, 15:50

Newton 1 and 2 (European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC))

Conveners

Fault Tolerance Methodologies and Tools

• Lucana Santos (ESA)

Fault Tolerance Methodologies and Tools

• David Merodio Codinachs (ESA)

22. Analysis and Mitigation of Single Event Upsets in Configuration Memory of Xilinx Kintex7 SRAM-based FPGA

Dr BOYANG DU (Politecnico di Torino)

09/04/2018, 15:50

Radiation test has been widely used as one of verification methods able to provide accelerated, realistic environment especially for space applications to evaluate device and system reliability against effects induced by charged particles. As for SRAM-based FPGA, one of the popular reconfigurable devices on the market providing high performance and flexibility, Single Event Upset (SEU) in...

27. Fault injection for space: FT-Unshades2 updates, experiences and roadmap

Prof. Hipólito Guzmán-Miranda (Universidad de Sevilla)

09/04/2018, 16:10

Fault injection is a promising technique for predicting the SEU Architectural Vulnerability Factor (AVF) of digital designs for space applications. Unfortunately, learning and using fault injection emulation tools needs a time and effort investment that may discourage development teams from applying the technique. Furthermore, there is an understandable concern in the design community about...

16. Permanent Fault Handling in SRAM-based FPGAs

Mr Florian Rittner (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

11/04/2018, 11:40

Permanent faults are a critical issue when using SRAM-based FPGAs in space applications. Compared to tem- porary effects such as Single-Event Upsets (SEUs), a system restart by performing an FPGA reset or a power cycle does not recover these faults. Usually, the occurrence of permanent faults has a low probability but is highly critical as it might lead to a system outage. In harsh...

7. Fuzzy-logic simulation based approach to modelling of fault propagation in FPGAs.

Mr Andrzej Cichocki (Centrum Badan Kosmicznych PAN)

11/04/2018, 12:00

Safety-critical digital applications often require calculating the probability of system failure. Existing tools for verification of FPGA-based designs in terms of susceptibility to SEUs/SETs base mainly on fault injection methods, that require numerous runs in order to get proper statistics and are not exhaustive. Run-time of post P&R simulations may significantly limit complexity of analysed...

42. Reprogrammable Flash-based FPGA on EUCLID mission

Prof. Luca Sterpone (Politecnico di Torino), Dr Raoul Grimoldi (OHB ITALIA)

11/04/2018, 12:20

EUCLID is a cosmology mission part of Cosmic Vision 2015 – 2025 whose prime objective is to study the geometry and the nature of the dark Universe (dark matter and dark energy). The goal of the mission is to investigate the distance-redshift relationship and the evolution of the cosmic structures by measuring shapes and redshifts of distant galaxies. EUCLID space segment will be a space craft...

23. Advancement on the Analysis and Mitigation of SETs on Flash-based FPGAs

Dr Sarah Azimi (Politecnico di Torino)

11/04/2018, 12:40

When particles hit a sensitive region of the ICs, it can lead to the voltage glitch, i.e. Single Event Transient (SET). Flash-based FPGAs are attracting more and more interests due to the immunity of their configuration memory against Single Event Upset (SEU). Flash-based FPGA technologies such as ProASIC3 as the golden core of several space mission project and RTG4 as the newest technology...