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A Fault-Tolerant Duplex Microcontroller Architecture  

Kim, Byung-Jin (삼성전자 DS총괄 SystemLSI)
Baek, Seung-Soo (삼성전자 DS총괄 AMLCD)
Lee, In-Hwan (한양대학 전자전기컴퓨터공학부)
Lim, Dong-Jin (한양대학 전자컴퓨터공학부)
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The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D / v.51, no.4, 2002 , pp. 144-151 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents a fault-tolerant duplex architecture to build a high-reliability microcontroller using commercial VLSI processors. The architecture supports fail-silence under all single-failure situations and facilitates recovery from transient failures. The paper implements the duplex architecture using two Motorola MC68360 processors and evaluates its fault tolerance in a real application environment.
Keywords
Microcontroller; Fault Tolerance; Duplex; Lock-Step;
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