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Mitigating the Impact of Faults in Unreliable Memories For Error-Resilient Applications

Ganapathy, Shrikanth  
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Karakonstantis, Georgios  
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Teman, Adam Shmuel  
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2015
Proceedings of the Design Automation Conference
Design Automation Conference (DAC'15)

Inherently error-resilient applications in areas such as signal processing, machine learning and data analytics provide opportunities for relaxing reliability requirements, and thereby reducing the overheads incurred by conventional error correction schemes. In this paper, we exploit the tolerable imprecision of such applications by designing an energy-efficient fault-mitigation scheme for unreliable memories to meet target yield. The proposed approach uses a bit-shuffling mechanism to isolate faults into bit locations with lower significance. By doing so, the bit-error distribution is skewed towards the low order bits, substantially limiting the output error magnitude. By controlling the granularity of the shuffling, the proposed technique enables trading-off quality for power, area and timing overhead. Compared to error-correction codes, this can reduce the overhead by as much as 83% in power, 89% in area, and 77% in access time when applied to various data mining applications in 28nm process technology.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1145/2744769.2744871
Author(s)
Ganapathy, Shrikanth  
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Karakonstantis, Georgios  
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Teman, Adam Shmuel  
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Burg, Andreas Peter  
Date Issued

2015

Published in
Proceedings of the Design Automation Conference
Start page

1

End page

6

Subjects

Reliability

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SRAM

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Memory

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Process Variation

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Fault-Tolerance

URL

URL

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/icp.jsp?arnumber=7167286
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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
Design Automation Conference (DAC'15)

San Francisco, California, USA

June 7-11, 2015

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February 17, 2015
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/111003
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