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We have learnt the following definitions of Reliability and Availability from the Fault Tolerance Measures post: Reliability, R(t): Probability that the system has been up continuously during the whole interval [0,t], given it was up at time 0. This measure is suitable for applications in which even a momentary disruption can prove costly. One example is computer…
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In the previous post we have understood the need of Fault Tolerance in VLSI System Design. A VLSI system can broadly be considered as a union of following 3 layers: Designers introduce several techniques to all these system layers to deal with transient as well as permanent faults, and these techniques incorporate the concept of…
In recent few years VLSI design has achieved remarkable growth. High performance (peta-scale) computing is a reality now and we are expecting exa-scale computing by 2020. We talk about many core processor now a days. Intel’s Xeon Phi (Knights Landing) with 72 cores and IBM’s Kilocore processors with more than 1000 cores are great examples…