Microprocessor and method for detecting faults therein

A microprocessor has a silicon area comprising a plurality of transistors implemented on the silicon area and a fault detection circuit occupying less than 20% of the silicon area and configured to detect faults at runtime in at least 80% of the plurality of transistors.

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Hauptverfasser: Bertacco, Valeria, Austin, Todd Michael, Shyam, Smitha, Constantinides, Kypros, Phadke, Sujay
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A microprocessor has a silicon area comprising a plurality of transistors implemented on the silicon area and a fault detection circuit occupying less than 20% of the silicon area and configured to detect faults at runtime in at least 80% of the plurality of transistors.