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Fault Tolerant Single Error Correction Encoders

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Soft errors are an important issue for circuit reliability. To mitigate their effects on the system functionality, different techniques are used. In many cases Error Correcting Codes (ECC) are used to protect circuits. Single Error Correction (SEC) codes are commonly used in memories and can effectively remove errors as long as there is only one error per word. Soft errors however may also affect the circuits that implement the Error Correcting Codes: the encoder and the decoder. In this paper, the protection against soft errors in the ECC encoder is studied and an efficient fault tolerant implementation is proposed.

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  1. Departmento de Ingenieria Informatica, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid, Spain

    Juan Antonio Maestro & Pedro Reviriego

  2. Research, C.A. EVOLVIT LTD, 8 Josep Broz Tito, 3010, Limassol, Cyprus

    Costas Argyrides

  3. Computer Science Department, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

    Dhiraj K. Pradhan

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Maestro, J.A., Reviriego, P., Argyrides, C. et al. Fault Tolerant Single Error Correction Encoders. J Electron Test 27, 215–218 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10836-011-5208-9

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