Course details
Fault Tolerant Systems
SOD Acad. year 2003/2004 Summer semester
Principles of fault tolerance, structures and techniques. Codes for control and correction of information. Cyclic codes, Fire codes, BCH and RS. Convolutional codes. Modelling, estimation and control of reliability. Fail-safe systems. Architecture of FT systems. Fault tolerance at VLSI level. Fault tolerance in computer units, computer systems and communication networks. Distributed tolerant systems, fault tolerant software.
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Time span
- 39 hrs lectures
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Subject specific learning outcomes and competences
Skills and approaches to building fault tolerance using hardware and codes.
Learning objectives
To inform the students about different types of redundancy and its application for the design of computer systems being able to function correctly even under presence of faults and data errors.
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