A Cost Effective Spacial Redundancy with Data-Path Partitioning

This paper attempts to identify how much testing time is cost effective in determining the number of redundant units needed to achieve high reliability with high confidence. This requires a two-phase test program, an initial period of testing for ...

Increasing the performance of application-specific processors by exploiting application-resident parallelism is often prohibited by costs; especially in the case of low-volume productions. The flexibility of horizontal-microcoded machines allows these ...

This paper presents a cost-effective approach to implement a long instruction word microprocessor. The proposed approach achieves the goal of optimal performance/cost tradeoff by selectively, instead of unconditionally, duplicating the hardware ...