Real-time fault detection for small computers

  • Authors:
  • J. R. Allen;S. S. Yau

  • Affiliations:
  • Bell Telephone Laboratories, Naperville, Illinois;Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '72 (Spring) Proceedings of the May 16-18, 1972, spring joint computer conference
  • Year:
  • 1971

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Abstract

Advancing technology and declining costs have led to a sharp increase in the number and variety of small computers in use. Because small computers are readily suited for many real-time applications, a great deal of work has been directed toward simplifying the interface between the computer and its peripherals. Hardware interrupting capability and a specially designed I/O bus are required for peripheral device interfacing in a real-time environment and such things as direct memory access, data channels, and multilevel hardware and software interrupt capability are common. These machines tend to be parallel, synchronous computers with a relatively simple architecture.