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Validation of an FPGA fault simulator [electronic resource].

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Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 2003.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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6 unnumbered pages : digital, PDF file
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Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary
This work describes the radiation testing of a fault simulation tool used to study the behavior of FPGA circuits in the presence of configuration memory upsets . There is increasing interest in the use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in space-based applications such as remote sensing[1] . The use of reconfigurable Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) within a spacecraft allows the use of digital circuits that are both application-specific and reprogrammable. Unlike application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), FPGAs can be configured after the spacecraft has been launched . This flexibility allows the same FPGA resources to be used for multiple instruments, missions, or changing spacecraft objectives . Errors in an FPGA design can be resolved by fixing the incorrect design and reconfiguring the FPGA with an updated configuration bitstream . Further, custom circuit designs can be created to avoid FPGA resources that have failed during the course of the spacecraft mission .
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E 1.99:la-ur-03-0858
la-ur-03-0858
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Published through SciTech Connect.
01/01/2003.
"la-ur-03-0858"
Submitted to: IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference, July, 21-25, 2003, Monterey, CA, USA.
Wirthlin, M. J.; Johnson, D. E.; Graham, P. S.; Caffrey, M. P.
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