This thesis introduces an alternative Fault-Tolerant Power-Aware Hybrid Adder (or simply FARHAD) for high-performance processors. FARHAD, similar to earlier studies, relies on performing add operations twice to detect errors. Unlike previous studies, FARHAD uses an aggressive adder to produce the initial outcome and a low-power adder to generate the second outcome, referred to as the checker. FARHAD uses checkpoints, a feature already available to high-performance processors, to recover from errors. FARHAD achieves the high energy-efficiency of time-redundant solutions and the high performance of resource-redundant adders. We evaluate FARHAD from power and performance points of view using a subset of SPEC’2K benchmarks. Our evaluations show that FARHAD outperforms an alternative time-redundant solution by 20%. FARHAD reduces the power dissipation of an alternative resource-redundant adder by 40% while maintaining performance. / Graduate / 0544
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/4802 |
| Date | 20 August 2013 |
| Creators | Hajkazemi, Mohammad Hossein |
| Contributors | Baniasadi, Amirali |
| Source Sets | University of Victoria |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | Available to the World Wide Web |
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