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Reconfigurable Field Programmable Gate Arrays: Hardening Solutions

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During the past years, several mitigation techniques have been proposed in order to increase the reliability of circuits of avionics and space applications and, in particular, to remove single and multiple points of failure from the designs. Depending on the kind of FPGA technology, several mitigation techniques have been proposed. These techniques rely, on the one hand, on technological modifications, in part sustained from the progressive improvement of the technology realization process and in part from necessity of increasing the reliability and the capacity of FPGA devices to tolerate faults; on the other hand, mitigation techniques can be applied at the application level, to exploit commercial technology anyhow achieving the required reliability degree.

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