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El Salloum et al., 2006 - Google Patents

Recovery mechanisms for dual core architectures

El Salloum et al., 2006

Document ID
4935102021114930684
Author
El Salloum C
Steininger A
Tummeltshammer P
Harter W
Publication year
Publication venue
2006 21st IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems

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Dual core architectures are commonly used to establish fault tolerance on the node level. Since comparison is usually performed for the outputs only, no precise diagnostic information is available, and error handling comes down to a reset of both cores. The …
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