Everything about Soft microprocessor

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Soft microprocessorA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A Soft-Error Hardened by Design Microprocessor Implemented on Bulk 12-nm FinFET CMOSInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Intelligent Technologies and Engineering SystemsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Techniques to Reduce the Soft Error Rate of a High-Performance MicroprocessorCited 63 times
5. Go sideways: Processor designA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Hardware accelerationA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Techniques to Reduce the Soft Error Rate of a High-Performance Microprocessor

  Christopher Weaver, Joel Emer, Shubhendu S. Mukherjee · 2004 · ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News · 63 citations

• Self-stabilizing microprocessor: analyzing and overcoming soft errors

  S. Dolev, Y.A. Haviv · 2006 · IEEE Transactions on Computers · 31 citations

• Evaluating the Impact of the Instruction Set on Microprocessor Reliability to Soft Errors

  Jorge A. Martinez, Juan Antonio Maestro, Pedro Reviriego · 2018 · IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability · 24 citations

• A Dual Mode Redundant Approach for Microprocessor Soft Error Hardness

  Lawrence T. Clark, Dan W. Patterson, Nathan D. Hindman · 2011 · IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science · 18 citations

• Reducing the soft-error rate of a high-performance microprocessor

  C.T. Weaver, J. Emer, S.S. Mukherjee · 2004 · IEEE Micro · 18 citations

• Microprocessor Soft Error Rate Prediction Based on Cache Memory Analysis

  S. Houssany, N. Guibbaud, A. Bougerol · 2012 · IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science · 9 citations

• A Soft-Error Mitigated Microprocessor With Software Controlled Error Reporting and Recovery

  Chad Farnsworth, Lawrence T. Clark, Anudeep R. Gogulamudi · 2016 · IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science · 9 citations

• Evaluating reliability through soft error triggered exceptions at ARM Cortex-A9 microprocessor

  Pablo M. Aviles, Almudena Lindoso, Jose A. Belloch · 2021 · Microelectronics Reliability · 6 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A Soft-Error Hardened by Design Microprocessor Implemented on Bulk 12-nm FinFET CMOS

  Lawrence T. Clark, Alen Duvnjak, Matthew Cannon · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science · 4 citations

• Dependability factors of microprocessor protection software

  M. I. Uspensky · 2023 · Dependability · 1 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Intelligent Technologies and Engineering SystemsJengnan Juang · 2013
• Information Security ApplicationsDong Hoon Lee · 2012
• 📕Tech15projects.com · 2014

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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