Modular redundancy without voters decreases complexity of restoring organ

  • Authors:
  • P. T. DeSousa;F. P. Mathur

  • Affiliations:
  • Rockwell International, Richardson, Texas;Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '77 Proceedings of the June 13-16, 1977, national computer conference
  • Year:
  • 1977

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Abstract

Fault-tolerant modules have usually been implemented through the use of static fault-masking or dynamic spare-switching. But a new class of MR (Modular Redundancy), the Responsive schemes, promises higher reliability levels and more efficient implementations for medium to high degrees of redundancy. In particular, Siftout Modular Redundancy (SMR) does not use voters and provides a 2-out-of-N redundancy with a very simple restoring organ. The complexity of implementation is analyzed for several MR's and reliability figures are compared for three 2-out-of-N schemes. SMR is shown to have the best performance.