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ProWAFT: A ROMA-LPD Instance for Workload-Aware and Dynamic Fault Tolerance in FPGA-Based CNN Accelerators

Xinxin Chen, Haoran Qiao, Yiming Guo, Kecheng Luo +2 more

Published

Jul 2, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

0/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

35% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

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Jul 2, 2026

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Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

A secondary eval reference to pair with stronger protocol papers.

What to verify

Validate the evaluation procedure and quality controls in the full paper before operational use.

Main weakness

This paper looks adjacent to evaluation work, but not like a strong protocol reference.

Human feedback signal
Not explicit
Not explicit in abstract metadata
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
0/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

If you are doing eval pipeline work, start here

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Abstract

SRAM-based FPGAs provide an attractive platform for energy- and latency-constrained CNN inference at the network edge, yet transient faults can lead to silent errors that compromise reliability. Always-on redundancy (e.g., full TMR) improves correctness but incurs substantial performance and energy overhead, while reactive recovery may introduce unacceptable latency on the critical path. We propose \textbf{ProWAFT}, a proactive workload-aware fault-tolerance framework for FPGA-based CNN accelerators that uses partial reconfiguration to selectively apply TMR across reconfigurable partitions. ProWAFT quantifies workload criticality, models fault propagation and reconfiguration overhead, and selects configurations that minimize a composite objective over latency, energy, and reliability risk. Implemented on a Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ ZCU104 platform with six reconfigurable regions and evaluated on a 500-task trace derived from ResNet-18, MobileNetV2, and EfficientNet-Lite under time-varying SEU injection, ProWAFT achieves lower composite cost than static TMR and reactive reconfiguration while maintaining high task success rate and near-baseline throughput with low online decision overhead.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"SRAM-based FPGAs provide an attractive platform for energy- and latency-constrained CNN inference at the network edge, yet transient faults can lead to silent errors that compromise reliability."

Evaluation Modes

partial

Automatic Metrics

Includes extracted eval setup.

"SRAM-based FPGAs provide an attractive platform for energy- and latency-constrained CNN inference at the network edge, yet transient faults can lead to silent errors that compromise reliability."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"SRAM-based FPGAs provide an attractive platform for energy- and latency-constrained CNN inference at the network edge, yet transient faults can lead to silent errors that compromise reliability."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"SRAM-based FPGAs provide an attractive platform for energy- and latency-constrained CNN inference at the network edge, yet transient faults can lead to silent errors that compromise reliability."

Reported Metrics

partial

Success rate, Task success

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"Implemented on a Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ ZCU104 platform with six reconfigurable regions and evaluated on a 500-task trace derived from ResNet-18, MobileNetV2, and EfficientNet-Lite under time-varying SEU injection, ProWAFT achieves lower composite cost than static TMR and reactive reconfiguration while maintaining high task success rate and near-baseline throughput with low online decision overhead."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

success ratetask success
Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Not reported
Expertise required
General
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Automatic Metrics
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

SRAM-based FPGAs provide an attractive platform for energy- and latency-constrained CNN inference at the network edge, yet transient faults can lead to silent errors that compromise reliability.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • SRAM-based FPGAs provide an attractive platform for energy- and latency-constrained CNN inference at the network edge, yet transient faults can lead to silent errors that compromise reliability.
  • Always-on redundancy (e.g., full TMR) improves correctness but incurs substantial performance and energy overhead, while reactive recovery may introduce unacceptable latency on the critical path.
  • We propose \textbf{ProWAFT}, a proactive workload-aware fault-tolerance framework for FPGA-based CNN accelerators that uses partial reconfiguration to selectively apply TMR across reconfigurable partitions.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Check the full text for explicit evaluation design choices (raters, protocol, and metrics).
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

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Contribution summary

  • We propose ProWAFT, a proactive workload-aware fault-tolerance framework for FPGA-based CNN accelerators that uses partial reconfiguration to selectively apply TMR across reconfigurable partitions.

Why it matters for eval

  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Automatic Metrics

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    Detected: success rate, task success