SEFUW: SpacE FPGA Users Workshop, 2nd Edition

Automated techniques for Building-in High Reliability and debugging your FPGA design

18 Sept 2014, 09:00

1h

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

FPGA/CAD Vendors

Speaker

Mr Frank McMillan (Synopsys)

Description

There is a need for electronic systems to operate with high-reliability and high-availability in the face of radiation-induced “soft errors”. The need for high-reliability and high-availability electronic systems has now expanded to include many applications including communications infrastructure, industrial automation, control and medical devices but these soft errors are still of particular concern when they occur in semiconductors that are deployed in military and aerospace systems. This presentation introduces design techniques included within Synplify Premier FPGA design tools that can be used to create circuitry that automatically detects and flags these errors, and then allows FPGA based systems to recover from them so that they continue to work reliably.