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STABLE: Stress-Aware Boolean Matching to Mitigate BTI-Induced SNM Reduction in SRAM-Based FPGAs.

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Titel: STABLE: Stress-Aware Boolean Matching to Mitigate BTI-Induced SNM Reduction in SRAM-Based FPGAs.
Autoren: Ghaderi, Zana1, Bagherzadeh, Nader2, Albaqsami, Ahmad2
Quelle: IEEE Transactions on Computers. Jan2018, Vol. 67 Issue 1, p102-114. 13p.
Schlagwörter: *SIMPLE Network Management Protocol (Computer network protocol), *ALGORITHMS, FIELD programmable gate arrays -- Design & construction, GRAPH theory, ROUTING (Computer network management)
Abstract: Biased-Temperature-Instability (BTI) aging mechanism reduces Static-Noise-Margin (SNM) of SRAM cells. This leads to a higher Soft-Error-Rate (SER), lower reliability, and lower SRAMs’ stability in FPGAs. SNM partially improves by leveraging the recovery phase of BTI through flipping SRAM content. We propose STABLE, a three-step post-synthesis stress-aware technique, in order to reduce the impact of BTI-induced SNM reduction in FPGA Look-up-Tables (LUTs) using the SAT-based Boolean Matching (BM) algorithm. STABLE partitions Data-Flow-Graph (DFG) of the implemented design into different cones. First, the SAT-based BM algorithm finds a new configuration for each cone while their functionalities are preserved and all SRAMs are flipped. Second, cones that did not pass the first step can benefit from unused SRAMs in their partially-used LUTs for storing the flipped configurations of such LUTs. Finally, flipped configurations of fully-used LUTs are stored in the closest unused LUTs. The main configuration of the implemented FPGA design is swapped by the new flipped configuration, periodically. Our extensive experimental analysis demonstrates 69 and 70 percent on average improvements in the SNM reduction () and the SER increase ( $\Delta SER$), respectively. Since the proposed methodology is deployed after the FPGA placement and routing of the application, the overhead is negligible. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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Abstract:Biased-Temperature-Instability (BTI) aging mechanism reduces Static-Noise-Margin (SNM) of SRAM cells. This leads to a higher Soft-Error-Rate (SER), lower reliability, and lower SRAMs’ stability in FPGAs. SNM partially improves by leveraging the recovery phase of BTI through flipping SRAM content. We propose STABLE, a three-step post-synthesis stress-aware technique, in order to reduce the impact of BTI-induced SNM reduction in FPGA Look-up-Tables (LUTs) using the SAT-based Boolean Matching (BM) algorithm. STABLE partitions Data-Flow-Graph (DFG) of the implemented design into different cones. First, the SAT-based BM algorithm finds a new configuration for each cone while their functionalities are preserved and all SRAMs are flipped. Second, cones that did not pass the first step can benefit from unused SRAMs in their partially-used LUTs for storing the flipped configurations of such LUTs. Finally, flipped configurations of fully-used LUTs are stored in the closest unused LUTs. The main configuration of the implemented FPGA design is swapped by the new flipped configuration, periodically. Our extensive experimental analysis demonstrates 69 and 70 percent on average improvements in the SNM reduction () and the SER increase ( $\Delta SER$), respectively. Since the proposed methodology is deployed after the FPGA placement and routing of the application, the overhead is negligible. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
ISSN:00189340
DOI:10.1109/TC.2017.2725952