Course details

Fault Tolerant Systems

SOD Acad. year 2007/2008 Summer semester

Current academic year

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. Radiation safety. Fault tolerance in computer units, computer systems and communication networks. Distributed tolerant systems, fault tolerant software.

Guarantor

Drábek Vladimír, doc. Ing., CSc. (DCSY)

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Completion

Examination

Time span

  • 39 hrs lectures

Department

Department of Computer Systems (UPSY)

Subject specific learning outcomes and competences

Skills and approaches to building fault tolerance using hardware and codes.

To get know a novel approach to ensure availability and safety of technical means.

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

Computer design and software tools.

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

  • 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.
  • Software for FT systems.

Progress assessment

Study evaluation is based on marks obtained for specified items. Minimimum number of marks to pass is 50.

Controlled instruction

The individual project.

Back to top