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How Good is Partially TMRed Design

09/20/2011 4:51 PM

Hello,

I am a FPGA guy and interested in understanding signle event effect on FPGA (especially, Xilinx FPGA). I have two questions:

1) When partially TMRed design is allowed, how do we know how good the design is? Is there any quantitative way to measure the susceptibility of a certain design? I've heard about STARC, but I wonder if it is in academia or available for real work.

2) How do we translate high level requirement such as "less than 1 error per day" to design details such as scrubbing rate, degree of TMR(fully, partially, no TMR)? I guess it should be based on real measurement at expected altitude and device.

If anyone knows, could you answer my questions? Thank you for your help.

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Re: How good is partially TMRed design

09/20/2011 5:02 PM

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Re: How good is partially TMRed design

09/20/2011 6:48 PM

I think FPGA is an abbreviation of some kind of IC.

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Re: How Good is Partially TMRed Design

09/20/2011 9:40 PM

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Re: How Good is Partially TMRed Design

09/20/2011 11:05 PM

haha... Thank you guys.

It is Field Programmable Gate Array... a type of digital IC.

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09/21/2011 4:03 AM

Please define abbreviations before using them. To do otherwise can make entire threads NBG.

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Re: How Good is Partially TMRed Design

09/21/2011 9:19 AM

FPGA is easy.

The Free Online Dictionary gives 47 possibilities for TMR, including "Transmyocardial Revascularization", "Totally Meaningless Relationship" and "Trout Mask Replica".

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09/21/2011 12:49 PM

Ah... Sorry again.

TMR = Triple Modular Redundancy

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