Course details

Fault Tolerant Systems

SPP Acad. year 2010/2011 Summer semester 5 credits

Current academic year

Guarantor

Drábek Vladimír, doc. Ing., CSc.

Language of instruction

Czech

Completion

Credit+Examination

Time span

  • 26 hrs lectures
  • 26 hrs projects

Department

Department of Computer Systems (UPSY)

Syllabus of lectures

  • Introduction, FT design methodology. Hardware redundancy, TMR, GMR.
  • Information redundancy, error control codes, parity codes, arithmetic codes.
  • Residue codes, Hamming codes, sparse parity codes.
  • Cyclic codes, Fire codes.
  • Galois fields, BCH and Reed-Solomon codes, byte error detection.
  • Convolution codes.
  • Time redundancy, alternating logic.
  • VLSI FT techniques.
  • FT in computer units and computer systems. Radiation fault tolerance.
  • A380 control system.
  • FT systems architectures. FT communication networks.
  • Distributed FT systems. Software for FT systems.

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