Researchers of the CRISP (Cutting edge Reconfigurable ICs for Stream Processing) consortium, a team of four companies and two universities in The Netherlands, Germany and Finland demonstrate a self-testing and self-repairing chip at the DATE2011 conference in Grenoble.
CRISP developed new concepts for run-time resource management to attain the goal of self-repair: while in operation, the chip tests cores and connections, and a resource manager dynamically assigns the chip's tasks to fault-free parts.
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