Zero-maintenance of electronic systems: Perspectives, challenges, and opportunities

R McWilliam, S Khan, M Farnsworth, C Bell - Microelectronics Reliability, 2018 - Elsevier
Self-engineering systems that are capable of repairing themselves in-situ without the need
for human decision (or intervention) could be used to achieve zero-maintenance. This …

An FPGA-based hardware-efficient fault-tolerant astrocyte-neuron network

AP Johnson, DM Halliday, AG Millard… - 2016 IEEE …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The human brain is structured with the capacity to repair itself. This plasticity of the brain has
motivated researchers to develop systems which have similar capabilities of fault tolerance …

Self-repairing mobile robotic car using astrocyte-neuron networks

J Liu, J Harkin, L McDaid, DM Halliday… - … Joint Conference on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A self-repairing robot utilising a spiking astrocyte-neuron network is presented in this paper.
It uses the output spike frequency of neurons to control the motor speed and robot activation …

Travelling Salesman Problem Solved 'in materio' by Evolved Carbon Nanotube Device

KD Clegg, JF Miller, K Massey, M Petty - Parallel Problem Solving from …, 2014 - Springer
We report for the first time on finding shortest path solutions for the travelling salesman
problem (TSP) using hybrid “in materio” computation: a technique that uses search …

MRAM-enhanced low power reconfigurable fabric with multi-level variation tolerance

R Zand, RF DeMara - … Transactions on Circuits and Systems I …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A hybrid device technology reconfigurable logic fabric is proposed which leverages the
cooperating advantages of distinct magnetic random access memory (MRAM)-based look …

Cross-layer reliability evaluation, moving from the hardware architecture to the system level: A CLERECO EU project overview

A Vallero, S Tselonis, N Foutris, M Kaliorakis… - Microprocessors and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Advanced computing systems realized in forthcoming technologies hold the promise of a
significant increase of computational capabilities. However, the same path that is leading …

A flexible energy-and reliability-aware application mapping for NoC-based reconfigurable architectures

L Liu, C Wu, C Deng, S Yin, Q Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a flexible energy-and reliability-aware application mapping approach
for network-on-chip (NoC)-based reconfigurable architecture. A parameterized cost model is …

Fault-tolerant strategy for real-time system based on evolvable hardware

J Wang, J Liu - Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, 2017 - World Scientific
The evolvable hardware (EHW) is widely used in the design of fault-tolerant system. Fault-
tolerant system is really a real-time system, and the recovery time is necessary in fault …

On on-chip intelligence paradigms

O Eldash, K Khalil, M Bayoumi - 2017 IEEE 30th Canadian …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hardware Intelligence is an attractive concept that has the potential to make electronic,
industrial and reliability-oriented applications efficiently optimized. This work investigates …

Evolutionary functional approximation of circuits implemented into FPGAs

Z Vasicek, V Mrazek, L Sekanina - 2016 IEEE Symposium …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In many applications it is acceptable to allow a small error in the result if significant
improvements are obtained in terms of performance, area or energy efficiency. Exploiting …