Nanoelectronic Device Applications Handbook

46	Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Architecture for Unreliable Device Technologies Nivard Aymerich, Sorin Cotofana and Antonio Rubio

CONTENTS

46.1 Introduction

46.2 The Averaging Cell

46.3 The Adaptive Averaging Cell

46.4 Comparison: Balanced versus Unbalanced AVG

46.5 AD–AVG Technology Implementation

46.6 Conclusions

References

46.1  INTRODUCTION

Computer architecture constitutes one of the key and strategic application fields for new, emerging devices at nanoscale dimensions, potentially getting benefit from the expected high-component density and speed. However, these future technologies are expected to suffer from a reduced device quality, exhibiting a high level of process and environmental variations as well as performance degradation due ...