Radtest - Testing Board for the Software Implemented Hardware Fault Tolerance Research

Author

Piotrowski, A. ; Makowski, D. ; Tarnowski, S. ; Napieralski, A.

Author_Institution

Tech. Univ. of Lodz, Lodz

fYear

2007

fDate

21-23 June 2007

Firstpage

124

Lastpage

128

Abstract

Modern experiments in particle physics are based on advanced and sophisticated electronic systems which have to operate under radiation impact. The problem of designing a hardened system becomes very important, especially in places such as accelerators and synchrotrons where the results of the experiments depend on control system based on digital devices eg. microcontrollers. This paper highlights new solutions of the reliability problem known as the software implemented hardware fault tolerance. That is a strict software approach and could be used with unhardened, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components.

Keywords

electronic engineering computing; fault tolerance; microprocessor chips; reliability; synchrotrons; accelerators; commercial off-the-shelf components; digital devices; electronic systems; fault tolerance; radiation; reliability problem; software implemented hardware; synchrotrons; testing board; Application software; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Hardware; Microprocessors; Particle accelerators; Radiation hardening; Single event upset; Software design; Software testing; Radiation environment; Radiation tolerant system; Single event upset; Software implemented hardware fault tolerance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2007. MIXDES '07. 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ciechocinek

Print_ISBN

83-922632-9-4

Electronic_ISBN

83-922632-9-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MIXDES.2007.4286133

Filename

4286133