Improving the dependability of FPGA-based real-time embedded systems with partial dynamic reconfiguration

Abstract

This paper explores advances in reconfiguration properties of SRAM-based FPGAs to improve the resilience of real-time embedded systems that use this technology. The effects of radiation on these devices are described and the applicability of the most used fault tolerance approaches is investigated. It finishes proposing a few improvements on these methodologies and discusses the roadmap to reach that goal, presenting the on-going and the future work.