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Barry W Johnson

1996/2/1

Fault-tolerant computer system design

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An Introduction to the Design and Analysis of Fault-Tolerant Systems Page 1 - 1 - An Introduction to the Design and Analysis of Fault-Tolerant Systems Barry W. Johnson Department of Electrical Engineering Center for Semicustom Integrated Systems University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903-2442 Portions of this material are adapted from the textbook Design and Analysis of Fault-Tolerant Digital Systems, by Barry W. Johnson, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts, 1989. Page 2 - 2 - Table of Contents 1.1. Introduction 1.1.1. Fundamental Terminology 1.1.2. Objectives of Fault Tolerance 1.1.3. Applications of Fault Tolerance 1.2. Redundancy Techniques 1.2.1. Hardware Redundancy 1.2.2. Information Redundancy 1.2.3. Time Redundancy 1.2.4. Software Redundancy 1.2.5 Redundancy Example 1.3. Dependability Evaluation Techniques 1.3.1. Basic Definitions 1.3.2. Reliability …