The University of Queensland

FPGA Controller Architectures for Safety Critical Applications (2006–2009)

Abstract:

Field Programmable Gate Arrays are circuits which combine the reprogrammability of software with the response speeds of hardware. FPGAs have great potential to improve the performance and reduce the costs of industrial controllers. However, their use in safety critical systems has been hampered by the lack of understanding of their failures modes, and by the lack of techniques to mitigate these failures. This research aims to identify these failures modes, and design and analyse new fault mitigation techniques, allowing confident deployment of FPGAs in safety critical systems for the first time. This will provide our industry collaborator with significant market advantage in its global market of railway signalling systems.

Grant type:

ARC Linkage Projects

Funded by:

Australian Research Council