High-Energy Physics Fault Tolerance Metrics and Testing Methodologies for SRAM-based FPGAs - A case of study based on the Xilinx Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) Subsystem

The thesis work is carried out in collaboration with the ALICE Inner Tracking System (ITS) group which is in charge of the construction of a new ITS detector that will operate in the ALICE experiment installed at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The study and optimization of different clocking techniques applicable to the Xilinx Kintex Ultrascale SRAM-based FPGA will be crucial for this reaserch. The main goal of this thesis is to define testing methodologies and metrics for the characterization of soft core processors. This work is applied to the Xilinx Triple Modular Redundancy Subsystem IP from Xilinx.