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Fault Tolerant Systems
FIT-SPPAcad. year: 2020/2021
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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Project processing and its presentation, achieving the minimal project evaluation 10 points.
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- Programme IT-MGR-2 Master's
branch MBI , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective
branch MPV , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective
branch MGM , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective
branch MSK , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective
branch MIS , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective
branch MBS , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, compulsory-optional
branch MIN , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective
branch MMI , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective
branch MMM , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective - Programme MITAI Master's
specialization NADE , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective
specialization NBIO , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective
specialization NGRI , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective
specialization NNET , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective
specialization NVIZ , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective
specialization NCPS , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective
specialization NSEC , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective
specialization NEMB , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective
specialization NHPC , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective
specialization NISD , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective
specialization NIDE , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective
specialization NISY , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective
specialization NMAL , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective
specialization NMAT , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective
specialization NSEN , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective
specialization NVER , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, compulsory
specialization NSPE , any year of study, summer semester, 5 credits, elective
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- 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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