FAC: a fault-tolerant design approach based on approximate computing

• Main Authors: Balasubramanian, Padmanabhan, Maskell, Douglas Leslie
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Hardware; Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Electronic circuits; Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Integrated circuits; Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Computer hardware, software and systems; Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies; Fault Tolerance; Redundancy; Approximate Computing; Arithmetic Circuits; Digital Logic Design; Low Power Design
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/170487
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article introduces a new fault-tolerant design approach based on approximate computing, called FAC, for designing redundant circuits and systems. Traditionally, triple modular redundancy (TMR) has been used to ensure complete tolerance to any single fault or a faulty processing unit, where the...