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Design of a Low-Overhead Superscalar Dual-Core Lockstep Processor Architecture for Automotive Functional Safety
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Chengyi ZHANG1, Mingyu WANG1, Zhiyi YU1, Zhaolin LI2
Chinese Journal of Automotive Engineering | 2024, 14(2) : 313 - 320
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Design of a Low-Overhead Superscalar Dual-Core Lockstep Processor Architecture for Automotive Functional Safety
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Chengyi ZHANG1, Mingyu WANG1, Zhiyi YU1, Zhaolin LI2
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  • 1 School of Microelectronics Science and Technology SUN Yat-sen University Guangzhou 510275 China
  • 2 Department of Computer Science and Technology Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China
doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-1469.2024.02.15
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In the field of automotive functional safety, the dualcore lockstep (DCLS) architecture is a redundancy architecture widely used for addressing processor faults. This paper proposes a novel dualcore lockstep architecture for superscalar processors that supports finegrained fault handling. By executing program rollback in the form of a branch instruction, the proposed architecture can detect and correct faults within the same clock cycle they occur, without the need for additional hardware support. Furthermore, the virtual writeback (VW) mechanism is also presented, which feeds specific data to readonly registers to prevent fault propagation. This allows the processor to avoid continuous context saving during program execution, which reduces area overhead significantly. The experimental results show that this architecture achieves more thorough fault coverage with minimal impact on the processor performance, while exhibiting reduced latency and area overhead compared with the DCLSrelated previous work.

dual-core lockstep  /  processor  /  fault handling  /  rollback
Chengyi ZHANG, Mingyu WANG, Zhiyi YU, Zhaolin LI. Design of a Low-Overhead Superscalar Dual-Core Lockstep Processor Architecture for Automotive Functional Safety[J]. Chinese Journal of Automotive Engineering, 2024 , 14 (2) : 313 -320 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-1469.2024.02.15
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doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-1469.2024.02.15
  • Receive Date:2023-05-05
  • Online Date:2025-07-21
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  • Received:2023-05-05
  • Revised:2023-06-05
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    1 School of Microelectronics Science and Technology SUN Yat-sen University Guangzhou 510275 China
    2 Department of Computer Science and Technology Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China
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