Course details
Fault Tolerant Systems
SPP Acad. year 2007/2008 Summer semester 5 credits
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
- 13 hrs projects
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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.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
There are no prerequisites
Syllabus of lectures
- Introduction, FT design methodology. Hardware redundancy, TMR, GMR, fault sieving.
- Information redundancy, parity codes, arithmetic codes.
- Residue codes, Hamming codes.
- Reed-Muller codes, cyclic codes.
- Galois fields, BCH and Reed-Solomon codes, byte error detection.
- Convolution codes.
- Time redundancy, alternating logic, RESO, RESWO, REDWC.
- Reliability modeling, combinatorial models, MIL-HDBK-217.
- Markov reliability models.
- VLSI reconfiguration techniques.
- FT systems architectures. FT communication networks.
- Distributed FT systems. Software for FT systems.
Progress assessment
Project processing and presentation.
Controlled instruction