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• Specific features
• Software fault tolerance techniques: N-version programming,
recovery blocks, self-checking software, etc.
Förkunskaper
Basic understanding of circuits and digital logic.
Kursfordringar
Assignment (ANN1; 1 credit)
Midterm (ANN2; 1 credit)
Examination (TEN1; 3 credits)
It is a 5 credit course with the final evaluation based on five homework
assignments (20%), a midterm exam (20%) and a final exam (60%). For PhD
students, an additional task will be to read and present a paper approved by the
instructor (20 min talk).
Kurslitteratur
Course notes E. Dubrova, "Fault-Tolerant Design: An Introduction" (draft,
will be distributed in the class).
• Markov processes
• Hardware redundancy
• Redundancy schemes
• Evaluation and comparison
• Applications
• Information redundancy
• Codes: linear, Hamming,
cyclic, unordered, arithmetic, etc.
• Encoding and decoding
techniques
• Applications
• Time redundancy
• Software fault tolerance
• Specific features
• Software fault tolerance
techniques: N-version programming,
recovery blocks, self-checking
software, etc.
Prerequisites
Basic understanding of circuits and
digital logic.
Requirements
Assignment (ANN1; 1 credit)
Midterm (ANN2; 1 credit)
Examination (TEN1; 3 credits)
It is a 5 credit course with the final
evaluation based on five homework
assignments (20%), a midterm exam
(20%) and a final exam (60%). For PhD
students, an additional task will be to
read and present a paper approved by
the instructor (20 min talk).
Required Reading
Course notes E. Dubrova, "Fault-
Tolerant Design: An Introduction"
(draft, will be distributed in the class).
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