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This book introduces the concepts of soft errors in FPGAs and GPUs. The chapters cover radiation effects in FPGAs, fault-tolerant techniques for FPGAs, use of COTS FPGAs in aerospace applications, experimental data of FPGAs under radiation, FPGA embedded processors under radiation, and fault injection in FPGAs. Since dedicated parallel processing architectures such as GPUs have become more desirable in aerospace applications due to high computational power, GPU analysis under radiation is also discussed.
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Kastensmidt, F., Rech, P. (2016). Radiation Effects and Fault Tolerance Techniques for FPGAs and GPUs. In: Kastensmidt, F., Rech, P. (eds) FPGAs and Parallel Architectures for Aerospace Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14352-1_1
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