Optimal Checkpoint Selection with Dual-Modular Redundancy Hardening

Abstract

With the continuous scaling of semiconductor technology, failure rate is increasing significantly so that reliability becomes an important issue in multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) design. We propose an optimal checkpoint selection with task duplication hardening to tolerate transient faults. A target application is specified in a task graph, and the schedule/checkpoint placements are determined at design time. The proposed optimal algorithm minimizes the checkpoint overhead with a latency constraint. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm effectively reduces the minimum end-to-end latency to perform a fault-tolerant schedule. In addition, the proposed algorithm dramatically decreases the checkpointing overhead on uniprocessor and multiprocessor systems compared with a greedy approach and an equidistant algorithm.