Course details

Fault Tolerant Systems

SOD Acad. year 2010/2011 Summer semester

Current academic year

Guarantor

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Completion

Examination

Time span

  • 39 hrs lectures

Department

Study literature

  • Hlavička J. - Racek S. - Golan P. - Blažek T.: Číslicové systémy odolné proti poruchám, Vydavatelství ČVUT, Praha, 1992

Fundamental literature

  • Lin S. - Costello D.J.: Error Control Coding: Fundamentals and Applications, Prentice-Hall, 1983

Syllabus of lectures

  • FT design methodology, structures and techniques.
  • 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.
  • Reliability modeling, combinatorial models, MIL-HDBK-217. Markov reliability models.
  • Safe systems.
  • FT architectures.
  • VLSI fault tolerance. Radiation fault tolerance. 
  • FT in computer units and computer systems.
  • FT systems architectures.
  • Software for FT systems.

Course inclusion in study plans

  • Programme VTI-DR-4, field DVI4, any year of study, Elective
  • Programme VTI-DR-4, field DVI4, any year of study, Elective
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