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Title: Majority and minority voted redundancy scheme for safety-critical applications with error/no-error signaling logic
Authors: Balasubramanian, Padmanabhan
Maskell, Douglas
Mastorakis, Nikos
Keywords: Fault Tolerance
Redundancy
DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
Issue Date: 2018
Source: Balasubramanian, P., Maskell, D., & Mastorakis, N. (2018). Majority and Minority Voted Redundancy Scheme for Safety-Critical Applications with Error/No-Error Signaling Logic. Electronics, 7(11), 272-. doi:10.3390/electronics7110272
Series/Report no.: Electronics
Abstract: In the era of nanoelectronics, multiple faults or failures of function blocks are likely to occur. To withstand these, higher levels of redundancy are suggested to be employed in at least the sensitive portions of a circuit or system. In this context, the N-modular redundancy (NMR) scheme may be used to guard against the multiple faults or failures of function blocks. However, the NMR scheme would exacerbate the weight, cost, and design metrics to implement higher-order redundancy. Hence, as an alternative to the NMR, the majority and minority voted redundancy (MMR) scheme was proposed recently. However, the proposal was restricted to the basic implementation with no provision for indicating the correct or the incorrect operation of the MMR. Hence in this work, we present the MMR scheme with the error/no-error signaling logic (ESL). Example NMR circuits without and with the ESL (NMRESL), and example MMR circuits without and with the proposed ESL (MMRESL) were implemented to achieve similar degrees of fault tolerance using a 32/28-nm CMOS technology. The results show that, on average, the proposed MMRESL circuits have 18.9% less critical path delay, dissipate 64.8% less power, and require 49.5% less silicon area compared to their counterpart NMRESL circuits.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88763
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46974
DOI: 10.3390/electronics7110272
Schools: School of Computer Science and Engineering 
Rights: © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Fulltext Permission: open
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