Special Module in Hardware Systems
COV 881 (1-0-0)

Pre-requisite: COL 718
Instructor
: Dr. Smruti R. Sarangi

Class
Topic
Slides
Papers
1
Soft Errors
Slides: soft errors
1) Architectural vulnerability factors
2) Soft Error Tutorial
2
Hard Errors
Slides: hard errors
1) Case for lifetime reliability
2) Duplication and graceful degradation
3
Power and Temperature
Slides: power, temperature
1) Temperature aware microarchitecture (HotSpot)
4
Power/Temperature Management
Slides: power/temp management
2) Power Efficient Computer Architectures
3) McPat: power modeling
4) Power management: survey
5
Process Variation
Slides: Process variation
1) Varius: Model of parameter variation
6
Process Variation and timing speculation

2) Razor (timing speculation)
3) EVAL (processor level timing speculation)
7
Design Bugs
Slides: Design Bugs
1) Phoenix
8
Checker Processors
Slides: Checker Processors
1) Basic DIVA
2) Efficient DIVA