CHITIN: A Comprehensive In-thread Instruction Replication Technique against Transient Faults

Hwisoo So, Moslem Didehban, Jinhyo Jung, Aviral Shrivastava, Kyoungwoo Lee

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Abstract

Soft errors have become one of the most important design concerns due to drastic technology scaling. Software-based error detection techniques are attractive, due to their flexibility and hardware independence. However, our in-depth analysis reveals that the state-of-the-art techniques in the area cannot provide comprehensive fault coverage: i) their control-flow protection schemes provide incomplete redundancy of original instructions, ii) they do not protect function calls and returns, and iii) their instruction scheduling leaves many vulnerabilities open. In this paper, we propose CHITIN - code transformations for soft error resilience that adopts the load-back checking scheme of nZDC, an improved version of SWIFT-like control-flow protection scheme, and a contiguous scheduling of the original and redundant instructions to dramatically improve the vulnerability from soft errors that disrupt the control-flow. Our fault injection experiments demonstrate that CHITIN can reduce more than 89% of the silent data corruptions in the state-of-the-art solutions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2021 Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1440-1445
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9783981926354
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 1 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event2021 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: Feb 1 2021Feb 5 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings -Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE
Volume2021-February
ISSN (Print)1530-1591

Conference

Conference2021 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period2/1/212/5/21

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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