MicroFaultTolerant (μFT)-a system for achieving cost effective fault tolerance in microcontroller based equipment

Author

Skavhaug, Siving Amund ; Pettersen, Odd

Author_Institution

Div. of Eng. Cybern., Norwegian Inst. of Technol., Trondheim, Norway

fYear

1995

fDate

14-16 Jun 1995

Firstpage

344

Lastpage

351

Abstract

MicroFaultTolerant (μFT) is a method for designing and implementing microcontroller based equipment which interacts with its environment and has a risk connected to its operation thus making fault-tolerance and fail-to-safe properties necessary. We are especially concerned about systems where the “safe” states change at non-deterministic intervals with describing values changing continuously. In this paper we propose a method for achieving fault-tolerance and fail-to-safe properties, regarding certain particularly relevant error classes, in microcontroller based equipment

Keywords

fault tolerant computing; microcontrollers; real-time systems; MicroFaultTolerant; cost effective fault tolerance; error classes; fail-to-safe properties; microcontroller; nondeterministic intervals; risk; Computer errors; Costs; Design engineering; Environmental economics; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Hardware; Microcontrollers; Power generation economics; Valves;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real-Time Systems, 1995. Proceedings., Seventh Euromicro Workshop on

Conference_Location

Odense

ISSN

1068-3070

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7112-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMWRTS.1995.514331

Filename

514331