Abstract

As the process shrink of integrated circuits advances and the integration density increases, reliability of integrated circuits in field becomes an issue. For critical systems such as server class computers and embedded systems, concurrent detection of errors is important. Addition is the most basic arithmetic operation, and a lot of adders are used in VLSIs. Reliable adders are important for realizing reliable systems. In these previously proposed concurrent error detectable adders, any erroneous output caused by a single fault can be detected. However, an erroneous output caused by multiple faults is not guaranteed to be detected. If a second fault has occurred before the first fault is found through detection of an erroneous output, the concurrent error detectability can be lost. For reliable adders, it is crucial that the first fault is noticed before a second fault occurs. Effective self-repairing can be achieved if the fault along with its exact location can be determined. In this work, a self-repairing hybrid adder is proposed with fault localization. It uses the advantages of ripple carry adder and carry-select adder to reduce the delay and area overhead.

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