{"title":"Monitoring communication channels on a shared memory multi-processor system on chip","authors":"Daniela Genius, Nicolas Pouillon","doi":"10.1109/ReCoSoC.2011.5981502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ReCoSoC.2011.5981502","url":null,"abstract":"To meet performance requirements, streaming applications have been mapped to Multi-Processor System on Chip (MPSoC). The Kahn Process Network (KPN) paradigm is sufficient when dealing with pipeline parallelism, but such point-to-point channels are impractical in the presence of massive task farm parallelism. Multi Writer Multi Reader (MWMR) channels generalize KPN in such a way that multiple writers and multiple readers access the same channel. They are implemented as software channels stored in on-chip memory to accommodate access by hardware and software tasks alike. The price to pay for this implementation is increased traffic to and from memory. Typical representatives are telecommunication applications which may treat hundreds or thousands of flows at a time, where the same chain of treatments is applied to every packet. The latency for this treatment depends on the packet's content, and can thus not be foreseen. Among multiple tasks which access a MWMR channel, the time to obtain a lock is variable. In consequence, fill states of MWMR channels vary heavily and it is crucial to monitor it in order to detect potential bottlenecks. We show how this can be done early in the design process by using SoCLib/DSX.","PeriodicalId":103130,"journal":{"name":"6th International Workshop on Reconfigurable Communication-Centric Systems-on-Chip (ReCoSoC)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121416341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Self-reparable system on FPGA for single event upset recovery","authors":"Uros Legat, Anton Biasizzo, F. Novak","doi":"10.1109/ReCoSoC.2011.5981512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ReCoSoC.2011.5981512","url":null,"abstract":"Mission critical and reliable systems on FPGA require error mitigation and recovery techniques to protect them from the errors caused by high energy radiation also known as Single Event Upsets (SEU). Different solutions have been reported with different trade-off of area-overhead and fault latency. We propose a low area-overhead self-reparable procedure based on an internal error recovery mechanism, which is monitored by an external watchdog timer in the role of diagnostic hardcore. The proposed procedure has been verified by extensive fault emulation experiments.","PeriodicalId":103130,"journal":{"name":"6th International Workshop on Reconfigurable Communication-Centric Systems-on-Chip (ReCoSoC)","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131786791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fast prototyping environment for embedded reconfigurable units","authors":"Damien Picard, Loïc Lagadec","doi":"10.1109/ReCoSoC.2011.5981496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ReCoSoC.2011.5981496","url":null,"abstract":"In order to cope with the increasing complexity of embedded applications as well as their fast evolution, flexible systems with high-performance are mandatory. In this context, reconfigurable system-on-chip solutions that meet application needs have become common. However, the innovation race shrinks time-to-market and puts high pressure on designers. Therefore designers need appropriate methodologies and tools to efficiently perform design space exploration of reconfigurable units. This paper addresses this issue with an ADL-based toolsuite for fast prototyping of reconfigurable units. Starting from a high-level model it supports design space exploration for different architectural solutions, to produce an hardware prototype and to generate the applicative tools for exploitation. Benefits and feasability of the approach are demonstrated by the complete prototyping and implementation of a reconfigurable unit supporting ressources virtualization.","PeriodicalId":103130,"journal":{"name":"6th International Workshop on Reconfigurable Communication-Centric Systems-on-Chip (ReCoSoC)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127658934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Grinschgl, Armin Krieg, C. Steger, R. Weiss, H. Bock, J. Haid
{"title":"Automatic saboteur placement for emulation-based multi-bit fault injection","authors":"J. Grinschgl, Armin Krieg, C. Steger, R. Weiss, H. Bock, J. Haid","doi":"10.1109/ReCoSoC.2011.5981521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ReCoSoC.2011.5981521","url":null,"abstract":"During recent years the dependability and security requirements of system-on-chip (SoC) designs have increased tremendously. Both, dependability and security, domains are concerned with operational faults of a random or intentional nature. In former case random faults e.g. caused by radiation or degradation effects could lead to execution errors with possible dramatic results. The security domain is more concerned with intentional faults injected by an adversary during a physical attack to drive the system into an unintended state. The resistance of such a design against faults can be emulated during early design phases using fault injection methods. For these methods the design-under-test is augmented with additional circuitry to emulate faults at predestined locations. One method uses saboteurs, elements that are transparent during normal operation and faulty if activated, are placed into the target system. If this placement process includes a high number of saboteurs, the hardware description manipulation could be a challenge for the design engineer. Therefore this paper presents an automatic placement methodology for fault injection evaluations using saboteur techniques. The automatized process allows for the efficient placement of large amounts of saboteurs. This enables the designer to evaluate a high number of different dependability and fault attack scenarios during early design phases using FPGA-based functional emulation. Selected case studies show how this approach can be applied to a common general purpose architecture in an efficient way.","PeriodicalId":103130,"journal":{"name":"6th International Workshop on Reconfigurable Communication-Centric Systems-on-Chip (ReCoSoC)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129017779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}