Migration of SES to FPGA Based Architectural Concepts

Abstract

Creating diverse redundancy for fail safe or fail operational systems in software reduces costs for additional hardware and increases flexibility. A lack of performance occurs by implementing a diverse software channel for e.g. floating-point operations in a traditionally microcontroller architecture. This paper gives an approach for transferring the Safely Embedded Software (SES) into a coprocessor and to migrate SES to a flexible and powerful FPGA architecture.