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Fault tolerance on semiconductor devices has been a meaningful matter
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 Since then, the interest in studying fault-tolerant techniques in order to keep
 integrated circuits (ICs) operational in such hostile environment has
 increased, driven by all possible applications of radiation tolerant circuits,
 such as space missions, satellites, high-energy physics experiments and
 others (Nasa, 2003).
 
 The development of fault-tolerant techniques is strongly associated with
 the target device, and it requires a detailed analysis of the effects of an upset
 on the related architecture. For each type of circuit, there is a set of most
 suitable solutions to be applied. In the past years, the integrated circuit
 industry has designed more and more complex architectures in order
 to improve performance, to increase logic density and to reduce cost.
 Examples of this development include Application Specific Integrated
 Circuits (ASICs), microprocessors composed of millions of transistors, highdensity
 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) components and, more
 recently, System-on-a-Chip (SOC) composed of embedded microprocessors,
 memories and analog blocks. These architectures have made a dramatic
 impact on the way systems are designed, providing a large amount of
 information processing on a single chip. They cover a wide range of
 applications, from portable systems to dedicated embedded control units and
 computers. In particular, FPGAs have made a major improvement in
 systems design by adding the reconfigurability feature, which reduces the
 time to market and increases the design flexibility.
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