Fault-Tolerant Systems

Foreword

Systems used in critical applications such as health, commerce, transportation, utilities, and national security must be highly reliable. Ubiquitous use of computing systems and other electronic systems in these critical areas requires that computing systems have high reliability. High reliability is achieved by designing the systems to be fault-tolerant. Even though the high reliability requirements of computing systems gave the original impetus to the study of the design of fault-tolerant systems, trends in manufacturing of VLSI circuits and systems are also requiring the use of fault-tolerant design methods to achieve high yields from manufacturing plants. This is due to the fact that with reduced feature sizes of VLSI circuit designs ...