Course: Hardware Based Fault Tolerance (6607-641)

Persons:

• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Hans-Joachim Wunderlich (verantwortlich)

Type of Course:

lecture with exercise

In-Class Hours Per Week:

4

Contents:

Micro- and Nano-electronic systems can exhibit failures,both right after production and during their operation. Systems for which safety and security is of concern have to be designed in a way that the desired function can be delivered even if some components fail or produce erroneous outputs.
This lecture presents the most important design techniques that allow to tolerate hardware faults up to a certain degree. The topics of the lecture are as follows: Terminology, Measures of fault tolerance, Techniques for structural and time redundancy, Error detection and diagnosis, Fault masking, repair, reconfiguration, Fault-tolerant distributed systems

Literature:

Apart from lecture slides, the following books can be used to deepen on the topics of the lecture:

I. Koren and C. M. Krishna: Fault-Tolerant Systems Morgan-,Kaufman, 2007

P. K. Lala: Self-Checking and Fault-Tolerant Digital Design, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers (2001)

D.K. Pradhan: Fault-Tolerant Computer Design, Prentice Hall,(1996)

R.N. Rao: E. Fujiwara, Error Control Coding for Computer,Systems, Prentice Hall (1989)

M.L. Bushnell: V.D. Agrawal, Essentials of Electronic Testing, Klumer Academic Publishers (2000)

Location:

Stuttgart-Stadt

Module:

• 6607-640 Hardware Based Fault Tolerance (compulsory)