A Low-Latency DMR Architecture with Fast Checkpoint Recovery Scheme

Go MATSUKAWA; Yohei NAKATA; Yasuo SUGURE; Shigeru OHO; Yuta KIMI; Masafumi SHIMOZAWA; Shuhei YOSHIDA; Hiroshi KAWAGUCHI; Masahiko YOSHIMOTO

doi:10.1587/transele.E98.C.333

Special Section on Solid-State Circuit Design—Architecture, Circuit, Device and Design Methodology

A Low-Latency DMR Architecture with Fast Checkpoint Recovery Scheme

Go MATSUKAWA, Yohei NAKATA, Yasuo SUGURE, Shigeru OHO, Yuta KIMI, Masafumi SHIMOZAWA, Shuhei YOSHIDA, Hiroshi KAWAGUCHI, Masahiko YOSHIMOTO

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Keywords: dual modular redundancy, checkpoint recovery, fault-tolerance

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2015 Volume E98.C Issue 4 Pages 333-339

DOI https://doi.org/10.1587/transele.E98.C.333

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This paper presents a novel architecture for a fault-tolerant and dual modular redundancy (DMR) system using a checkpoint recovery approach. The architecture features exploitation of SRAM with simultaneous copy and instantaneous compare function. It can perform low-latency data copying between dual cores. Therefore, it can carry out fast backup and rollback. Furthermore, it can reduce the power consumption during data comparison process compared to the cyclic redundancy check (CRC). Evaluation results show that, compared with the conventional checkpoint/restart DMR, the proposed architecture reduces the cycle overhead by 97.8% and achieves a 3.28% low-latency execution cycle even if a one-time fault occurs when executing the task. The proposed architecture provides high reliability for systems with a real-time requirement.

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