Abstract

Motivated by the proposed NASA HyspIRI mission, our work improves existing Radiation Hardening by Software (RHBSW) techniques with FPGA Fabric Checkpoint/Restart (F2CPR) to bring enhanced hardware/software co-designed fault tolerance to commercial FPGA devices. We evaluate our approach on Fast Lossless (FL) image compression prediction for hyperspectral imagery in order to meet real-time performance requirements that cannot be achieved with aging radiation hardened devices. We report results across several metrics including resource utilization, performance, and an analysis of the vulnerability to Single Event Upsets (SEU) through the use of a hardware based fault injector. Results show low performance overhead (4-8%) achieving a speedup of 11.28× with a hardware accelerated implementation.

Date

2013

Authors

Andrew G Schmidt, Matthew French

Conference

2013 IEEE 24th International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors

Pages

103-106

Publisher

IEEE