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Fault-Tolerant Digital Systems

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
  • Course Goals
  • Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities

Requirements

PHM113s AND CSE211s

Description

  • English Description

    Origins, Goals, and Applications of fault-tolerant computing. Defining faults, Errors, and Failures. Causes, Characteristics, and Models of faults. Logical and physical stuck-fault models. Design philosophies to combat faults. Error models. Design techniques to achieve fault tolerance: Concept of redundancy, Hardware redundancy, Information redundancy, Time redundancy, and Software redundancy. Evaluation techniques: Quantitative methods, Reliability, Safety, Availability and maintainability modeling, System comparisons, and Redundancy ratios. Design of practical fault-tolerant systems: Design process, Use of fault avoidance in the design process, Long-life applications, Critical-computation applications, and High-availability applications. Fault-tolerant design of VLSI circuits and systems.
  • Arabic Description

    Origins, Goals, and Applications of fault-tolerant computing. Defining faults, Errors, and Failures. Causes, Characteristics, and Models of faults. Logical and physical stuck-fault models. Design philosophies to combat faults. Error models. Design techniques to achieve fault tolerance: Concept of redundancy, Hardware redundancy, Information redundancy, Time redundancy, and Software redundancy. Evaluation techniques: Quantitative methods, Reliability, Safety, Availability and maintainability modeling, System comparisons, and Redundancy ratios. Design of practical fault-tolerant systems: Design process, Use of fault avoidance in the design process, Long-life applications, Critical-computation applications, and High-availability applications. Fault-tolerant design of VLSI circuits and systems.
  • Department
    Computer and Systems Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    2
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (20) + tr.Student Activities (30 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 10% , tr.Self_learning 0% , tr.Seminar 20% ) + Exam Grade (50)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 1, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    100
  • Equivalent ECTS
    4
  • Barry W. Johnson, “Design and Analysis of Fault-tolerant Digital Systems”, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1989 - Patranabis Sikhar and Debdeep Mukhopadhyay. 2018. Fault Tolerant Architectures for Cryptography and Hardware Security. Singapore: Springer.