Toward a fault-tolerant processor for medical applications

Author

McAllister, David F. ; Nagle, H. Troy

Author_Institution

Comput. Syst. Lab., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

8-10 Jun 1988

Firstpage

101

Lastpage

104

Abstract

A fault-tolerant system architecture for medical applications in which the processors and software interactions are treated in a unified manner is proposed. An overview of the requirements of such a system, which includes fully testable processors that are self-checking and which can execute multiversion software in parallel, is provided. The system will facilitate the interactions and provide for performance and fault monitoring, adjudication of outputs, and dynamic system reconfiguration. An implementation plan for the processor is presented

Keywords

fault tolerant computing; medical computing; adjudication of outputs; dynamic system reconfiguration; fault monitoring; fault-tolerant processor; fault-tolerant system architecture; fully testable processors; medical applications; multiversion software; parallel; performance; self-checking; software; Automatic testing; Biomedical equipment; Computer architecture; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Medical services; Medical treatment; Monitoring; Software testing; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering of Computer-Based Medical Systems, 1988., Proceedings of the Symposium on the

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4863-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECBS.1988.5456

Filename

5456