Abstract
Approximate Triple Modular Redundancy has been proposed in the literature to overcome the area overhead issue of Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR). The outcome of TMR/Approximate TMR modules serves as the voter input to produce the final output of a system. Because the working principle of Approximate TMR conditionally allows one of the approximate modules to differ from the original circuit, it is critical for Approximate TMR that a voter not only be tolerant toward its internal faults but also toward faults that occur at the voter inputs. Herein, we present a novel compact voter for Approximate TMR using pass transistors and quadded transistor level redundancy to achieve a higher fault masking. The design also targets a better Quality of Circuit (QoC), a new metric which we have proposed for highlighting the ability of a circuit to fully mask all possible internal faults for an input vector. Comparing the fault masking features with those of existing works, the proposed voter delivered upto 45.1%, 62.5%, 26.6% improvement in Fault Masking Ratio (FMR), QoC, and reliability, respectively. With respect to the electrical characteristics, our proposed voter can achieve an improvement of up to 50% and 56% in terms of the transistor count and power delay product, respectively.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Computer Networks and Communications,Hardware and Architecture,Signal Processing,Control and Systems Engineering
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