Reliability-Aware Overlay Architectures for FPGAs: Features and Design Challenges

TL;DR

This paper explores the design features and challenges of creating reliability-aware overlay architectures for SRAM-based FPGAs, aiming to enhance fault tolerance and system robustness.

Contribution

It introduces the concept of reliability-aware overlays for FPGAs and discusses key features and design challenges involved.

Findings

Identifies main features of reliability-aware FPGA overlays.

Discusses critical design challenges in overlay architectures.

Highlights the importance of fault tolerance in FPGA overlays.

Abstract

The FPGA overlay architectures have been mainly proposed to improve design productivity, circuit portability and system debugging. In this paper, we address the use of overlay architectures for building fault tolerant SRAM-based FPGA systems and discuss the main features and design challenges of a reliability-aware overlay architecture.