Reliability-driven software transformations for unreliable hardware

Semeen Rehman; Florian Kriebel; Muhammad Shafique; Jorg Henkel

doi:10.1109/TCAD.2014.2341894

Reliability-driven software transformations for unreliable hardware

Semeen Rehman, Florian Kriebel, Muhammad Shafique, Jorg Henkel

Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

We propose multiple reliability-driven software transformations targeting unreliable hardware. These transformations reduce the executions of critical instructions and spatial/temporal vulnerabilities of different instructions with respect to different processor components. The goal is to lower the application's susceptibility toward failures. Compared to performance-optimized compilation, our method incurs 60% lower application failures, averaged over various fault injection scenarios and fault rates.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	6932563
Pages (from-to)	1597-1610
Number of pages	14
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Volume	33
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2014.2341894
State	Published - Nov 1 2014

Keywords

Compiler
fault tolerance
reliability
reliable software
soft errors
software transformations

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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