MOS current mode logic for low power, low noise CORDIC computation in mixed-signal environments
ISLPED '00 Proceedings of the 2000 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits
Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits
Unveiling the ISCAS-85 Benchmarks: A Case Study in Reverse Engineering
IEEE Design & Test
A performance evaluation of the Intel iAPX 432
ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
Word Voter: A New Voter Design for Triple Modular Redundant Systems
VTS '00 Proceedings of the 18th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium
A Tuturial on the Emerging Nanotechnology Devices
VLSID '04 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on VLSI Design
Defect and Error Tolerance in the Presence of Massive Numbers of Defects
IEEE Design & Test
Tutorial on DFM for physical design
Proceedings of the 2005 international symposium on Physical design
Toward Hardware-Redundant, Fault-Tolerant Logic for Nanoelectronics
IEEE Design & Test
Redundancy management technique for space shuttle computers
IBM Journal of Research and Development
IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology
Array-based architecture for FET-based, nanoscale electronics
IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology
Majority multiplexing-economical redundant fault-tolerant designs for nanoarchitectures
IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology
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Redundancy-based techniques have been widely used to correct the faulty behavior of components and achieve high reliability. N-tuple modular redundancy (NMR) systems, in particular, are all based on majority voting. The voter unit therefore becomes a bottleneck for the correct operation of any NMR system. In this paper, we propose a novel current-based voting strategy to design a robust NMR system. We show that, with this inexpensive strategy, we can completely eliminate the centralized voter unit and push NMR to the logic gate level. Our strategy achieves high reliability that is vital for future nanotechnology in which a high defect rate is expected. At the same time, it consumes less power and has less propagation delay compared to conventional NMR systems. Experimental results are reported to verify the concept, clarify the design procedure, and measure the system's reliability.