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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing Volume 2011, Article ID 430808, 25 pages doi:10.1155/2011/430808 Research Article Sustainable Modular Adaptive Redundancy Technique Emphasizing Partial Reconfiguration for Reduced Power Consumption R. Al-Haddad, R. Oreifej, R. A. Ashraf, and R. F. DeMara Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, P.O. Box 2362, Orlando, FL 32816-2362, USA Correspondence should be addressed to R. Al-Haddad, rawadh@ Received 16 January 2011; Revised 10 May 2011; Accepted 7 June 2011 Academic Editor: Scott Hauck Copyright © 2011 R. Al-Haddad et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. As reconfigurable devices’ capacities and the complexity of applications that use them increase, the need for self-reliance of deployed systems becomes increasingly prominent. Organic computing paradigms have been proposed for fault-tolerant systems because they promote behaviors that allow complex digital systems to adapt and survive in demanding environments. In this paper, we develop a sustainable modular adaptive redundancy technique (SMART) composed of a two-layered organic system. The hardware layer is implemented on a Xilinx Virtex-4 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) to provide self-repair using a novel approach called reconfigurable adaptive redundancy system (RARS). The software layer supervises the organic activities on the FPGA and extends the self-healing capabilities through application-independent, intrinsic, and evolutionary repair techniques that leverage the benefits of dynamic partial reconfigur