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Improving Reliability, Security, and Efficiency of Reconfigurable Hardware Systems
In this treatise, my research on methods to improve efficiency, reliability,
and security of reconfigurable hardware systems, i.e., FPGAs, through partial
dynamic reconfiguration is outlined. The efficiency of reconfigurable systems
can be improved by loading optimized data paths on-the-fly on an FPGA fabric.
This technique was applied to the acceleration of SQL queries for large
database applications as well as for image and signal processing applications.
The focus was not only on performance improvements and resource efficiency, but
also the energy efficiency has been significantly improved. In the area of
reliability, countermeasures against radiation-induced faults and aging effects
for long mission times were investigated and applied to SRAM-FPGA-based
satellite systems. Finally, to increase the security of cryptographic
FPGA-based implementations against physical attacks, i.e., side-channel and
fault injection analysis as well as reverse engineering, it is proposed to
transform static circuit structures into dynamic ones by applying dynamic
partial reconfiguration