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Gracefully Degrading Circuit Controllers Based on Polytronics

RŮŽIČKA, R.

Original Title

Gracefully Degrading Circuit Controllers Based on Polytronics

Type

article in a collection out of WoS and Scopus

Language

English

Original Abstract

This paper proposes utilisation of polymorphic electronics to design digital circuit controllers that gracefully degrades when some inconvenient situation arise, e.g. when battery goes low or a chip temperature cross some safe level. In proposed approach, the next state logic of the controller is designed using polymorphic gates. Polymorphic gates exhibit two or more logic functions in according to a specific condition (e.g. Vdd level or special signals). This allows to make a smart reconfiguration of the circuit. An algorithm for designing gracefully degrading circuit controllers using polymorphic gates is proposed in the paper. Purpose of the algorithm is demonstrated on an example of a controller. This controller was physically realised and its functionality (especially in transient state) was verified.

Keywords

polymorphic electronics, polymorphic gates, digital circuit controllers, dependability

Authors

RŮŽIČKA, R.

RIV year

2010

Released

31. 8. 2010

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society

Location

Los Alamitos

ISBN

978-0-7695-4171-6

Book

Proc. of 13th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design

Pages from

809

Pages to

812

Pages count

4

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT34835,
  author="Richard {Růžička}",
  title="Gracefully Degrading Circuit Controllers Based on Polytronics",
  booktitle="Proc. of 13th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design",
  year="2010",
  pages="809--812",
  publisher="IEEE Computer Society",
  address="Los Alamitos",
  isbn="978-0-7695-4171-6"
}