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This paper presents a novel circuit level model that explains and confirms the extra combinational delays in a SRAM-FPGA (Virtex-5) due to radiation, which matches the experimental results by proton irradiation at TRIUMF.

Experimental means to characterize delay faults induced by bit flips and SEUs in I/O blocks of SRAM-based FPGAs are proposed. A delay fault up to 6.2ns sensitized by an events chain is reported.

Timing degradation in SRAM-based FPGAs arises from multiple physical mechanisms that manifest differently in the routing fabric, most notably power-distribution-network (PDN) marginality and configuration-induced routing perturbations.…

Transient stability assessment is a critical tool for power system design and operation. With the emerging advanced synchrophasor measurement techniques, machine learning methods are playing an increasingly important role in power system…

The FPGA overlay architectures have been mainly proposed to improve design productivity, circuit portability and system debugging. In this paper, we address the use of overlay architectures for building fault tolerant SRAM-based FPGA…

As the one-chip integration of HW-modules designed by different companies becomes more and more popular reliability of a HW-design and evaluation of the timing behavior during the prototype stage are absolutely necessary. One way to…

This paper presents an architecture of high-resolution delay generator implemented in a single field programmable gate array (FPGA) chip by exploiting the method of utilizing dedicated carry chains. It serves as the core component in…

With the outsourcing of design flow, ensuring the security and trustworthiness of integrated circuits has become more challenging. Among the security threats, IC counterfeiting and recycled ICs have received a lot of attention due to their…

Spiking neural networks implemented in dynamic neuromorphic processors are well suited for spatiotemporal feature detection and learning, for example in ultra low-power embedded intelligence and deep edge applications. Such pattern…

The emergence of new nanoscale technologies has imposed significant challenges to designing reliable electronic systems in radiation environments. A few types of radiation like Total Ionizing Dose (TID) effects often cause permanent damages…

Detection of level shifts in a noisy signal, or trend break detection, is a problem that appears in several research fields, from biophysics to optics and economics. Although many algorithms have been developed to deal with such problem,…

Effects of radiation on electronic circuits used in extra-terrestrial applications and radiation prone environments need to be corrected. Since FPGAs offer flexibility, the effects of radiation on them need to be studied and robust methods…

Accurate and low-latency qubit state measurement is critical for trapped-ion quantum computing. While deep neural networks (DNNs) have been integrated to enhance detection fidelity, their latency performance on specific hardware platforms…

Selective hardening is widely employed to improve the reliability of FPGA based soft processors while limiting the overhead of full redundancy. However, existing approaches primarily rely on architectural criticality or functional fault…

The use of future communication systems for sensing offers the potential for a number of new applications. In this paper, we show that leveraging user data payloads in multi-node Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA)…

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are widely recognized for their proficiency in modeling temporal dependencies, making them highly prevalent in sequential data processing applications. Nevertheless, vanilla RNNs are confronted with the…

An increasing number of unhardened commercial-off-the-shelf embedded devices are deployed under harsh operating conditions and in highly-dependable systems. Due to the mechanisms of hardware degradation that affect these devices, ageing…

The dispersion engineering of periodic silicon photonic waveguides presents opportunities for significant group delay enhancement compared to uniform waveguides of comparable length. We describe the spectral response characteristics for…

Comparator-overdrive-delay conditioning is a new control conditioning approach for high-frequency current-mode control. No existing literature rigorously studies the effect of the comparator overdrive delay on the current-mode control. The…

The conventional non-coherent differential detection of continuous phase modulation (CPM) is quite robust to channel impairments such as phase and Doppler shifts. Its implementation is on top of that simple. It consists in multiplying the…