Reliability assessment in embryonics inspired by fault-tolerant quantum computation

  • Authors:
  • Lucian Prodan;Mihai Udrescu;Mircea Vladutiu

  • Affiliations:
  • Advanced Computing Systems and Architectures, "Politehnica" University, Timisoara, Romania;Advanced Computing Systems and Architectures, "Politehnica" University, Timisoara, Romania;Advanced Computing Systems and Architectures, "Politehnica" University, Timisoara, Romania

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Computing frontiers
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The Embryonics (embryonic electronics) project aims at implementing Nature's structural redundancy mechanisms in digital electronics in order to attain superior reliability in aggressive, critical environments. It offers a hierarchically reconfigurable framework, whose effectiveness was assessed only for some particular cases [8]. This paper proposes a complete and original approach to the reliability analysis for Embryonics, by adopting the accuracy threshold measure, taken from fault-tolerant quantum computing theory, as the main parameter for our qualitative evaluation. We also start a plea for the concatenated coding technique, which is suitable for the multiple-level organization in Embryonics, and preserves an arbitrary long fault-tolerant computation