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Fault Tolerant Systems
FIT-SPPAcad. year: 2017/2018
Principles of fault tolerance, structures and techniques. Codes for control and correction of information. Sparse parity codes. Cyclic codes, Fire codes, Galois field construction, BCH and RS codes. Convolutional codes. Fail-safe systems. Architecture of FT systems. Fault tolerance at VLSI level. Fault tolerance in computer units, computer systems and communication networks. Radiation fault tolerance. A380 control system. Distributed tolerant systems, fault tolerant software.
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- Syllabus of lectures:
- Introduction, FT design methodology. Hardware redundancy, TMR, GMR.
- Information redundancy, error control codes, parity codes, arithmetic codes.
- Residue codes, Hamming codes, sparse parity codes.
- Cyclic codes, Fire codes.
- Galois fields, BCH and Reed-Solomon codes, byte error detection.
- Convolution codes.
- Time redundancy, alternating logic.
- VLSI FT techniques.
- FT in computer units and computer systems. Radiation fault tolerance.
- A380 control system.
- FT systems architectures. FT communication networks.
- Distributed FT systems. Software for FT systems.
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- Programme IT-MSC-2 Master's
branch MMI , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
branch MBI , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
branch MSK , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
branch MMM , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
branch MBS , 0 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
branch MPV , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
branch MIS , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
branch MIN , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
branch MGM , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective