A Fault Tolerant Design Methodology for Threshold Logic Gates and its Optimizations

Manoj Kumar Goparaju and Spyros Tragoudas
Southern Illinois University


Abstract

Threshold Logic Gates (TLG) are prone to manufacturing defects that impact weight values which inadvertently affect the functionality of the gate. A method is presented for the design of threshold logic gates to tolerate manufacturing defects to the maximum possible extend. A novel solution is presented for the problem of identifying a fault tolerant k-input TLG for any value of k that can be implemented with minimal effort.