The TMR process selects the best output among
the three possible combination of the design under
test by making use of the voter element block. The
TMR has increased efficiency and reliability in
terms of permanent and timing errors, [1]. The
advent of heterogeneous system has paid way for
the accurate identification of errors along with
correction in the field of semiconductor technology,
[2]. The absence of voter element in TMR has
enhanced speed in signal propagation, clocking and
reduced number of transistors in circuit, [3]. The
decrease in the internal error in signal propagation is
attained using the ATMR that uses pass transistor
implementation in design for voter element, [4]. The
thrust in error mask is highlighted using specific
compiler for the ATMR technique, [5]. The area
optimization and low loss in reliability is achieved
using the STMR technique, [6].
The redundancy circuit is designed with the
Quade Shape NAND logic to guarantee secure
working of the voter element, [7]. The secondary
fault inducer fused with the mission-critical process
can aid in the finding of persistent error in digital
logics, [8]. The inclusion of FPGA in the
redundancy techniques can enhance the time period
by 30% and has low area utilization than the
advanced methods, [9]. The reduction in the
Neutron checking is possible using the FPGA based
TMR circuit by 26 times than the conventional
circuit, [10]. The power consumption is decreased
by 44% for complex digital design when
implemented in real applications, [11].
The influence of TMR and its merits in real time
usage is minimal in fields such as power converters.
The correctness of the not logic is ensured using the
tolerable PWM signal that consists of dual
redundancy control circuit, [12]. The identification
of errors in switches of the power inverter is
accomplished by the utilization of redundant
algorithm, [13]. The hybridization of the
redundancy algorithms can enhance the reliability of
the design and in parallel regularization of buck
converter device, [14]. The TMR based Digital
Pulse Width Modulation exhibits good performance
with low power and area utilization, [15].
As technology develops, faults can affect several
memory bits because circuitry is spaced closer
together on a smaller area. With the decreasing size
of technology, there is a greater likelihood of
numerous faults occurring, necessitating the
correction of multiple errors instead of single error.
The proposed method concentrates on the error
correction which plays a vital role in the
performance of the Modified Hybrid Digital Pulse
Width Modulation Generator with the Triple
Modular Redundancy algorithm. To analyse the
performance of the proposed method, the fault is
induced in the MDPWM algorithm and validated for
correctness in the output by making use of the
majority circuit. The presented method is
implemented using the Xilinx FPGA device (Artix-
7) and evaluated for performance analysis such as
power, area, and delay. Compared with the existing
methods, proposed operation consumes low power
and covers minimum area and delay.
2 The Proposed Method: Triple
Modular Redundancy based
Modified Hybrid Digital Pulse
Width Modulation
The proposed method includes the fault
identification of modified hybrid digital Pulse Width
Modulation signals by using the Triple Modular
Redundancy is very fast and more accurate as it is
can easily identify different types of faults. The fault
identification of the proposed method is developed
using the structural style of the VHDL code. This
section discusses about the internal structure of the
MHDPWM and proceeded by the application of the
TMR concept in the developed MHDPWM
generator.
i)Modified Hybrid Digital Pulse Width Modulation
The Pulse Width Modulation Generator is utilised to
control the closed loop converter circuit with the
adjustment of duty cycle. The conventional PWM
requires a sinusoidal signal overlapped with the high
frequency carrier triangular signal for its generation
and exhibits demerits such as accuracy in regulation
of the converter and delay in time transient
response. To overcome these issues, the Digital
Pulse Width Modulation is prioritised over the
PWM signals. There are basically three types of
DPWM namely Counter based DPWM; Delay line
based DPWM and Hybrid based DPWM. The
CDPWM is developed with the counter circuit,
DDPWM is designed using the multiplexer circuit
and HDPWM uses both the counter and multiplexer
circuit. The drawbacks of the DPWM methods is the
time delay presence in the TURN ON and TURN
OFF of the Pulse duration of the DPWM signal.
This triggers to the development of the Modified
DPWM techniques such as Modified CDPWM,
Modified DDPWM and Modified HDPWM.
Though the Modified CDPWM and Modified
DDPWM can be used for the reduction of the
TURN ON and TURN OFF delays, in this proposed
work, the Hybridization of the MCDPWM is used
WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on CIRCUITS and SYSTEMS
DOI: 10.37394/23201.2023.22.16
P. Jegadeeshwari, N. Kirubakaran,
S. Bharath, G. Nalinashini, G. Mahalakshmi,
Deborah Sabhan