CPE 633 - Fault-Tolerant Computing Systems

Spring 2008

COURSE INFORMATION:

Credit Hours:

3

Prerequisites:

CPE 531, CPE 526, EE 500

Description:

Analysis and design of very high reliability and availability systems.

Fault types, reliabilty techniques, and maintenance techniques. Case

studies of high-availability long-life life-critical systems. Both

hardware and software techniques for achieving fault-tolerance will be

studied.

Topics:

• Preliminaries
• Hardware Fault Tolerance
• Information Redundancy
• Fault-Tolerant Networks
• Software Fault Tolerance
• Checkpointing
• Case Studies
• Defect Tolerance in VLSI Circuits
• Fault Detection in Cryptographic Systems
• Simulation Techniques

Syllabus

Student Handbook

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Lecture Slides

Homework Assignments

Homework #1 Due /08 Chapter

Homework #2 Due /08 Chapter

Homework #3 Due /08 Chapter

Homework #4 Due 2/26/08 Chapter 3 Problems 12, 14, 15, 18, 21

Notes: for 12 derive Markov model and differential equations only

for 15, solve only for availability, not reliability

Homework #5 Due 3/13/08 Chapter 4 Problems 5, 6, 9, 11, 14

Homework #6 Due 4/5/08 Chapter 5 Problem 5, Chapter 6 Problems 1, 3, 4, 7

Homework Solutions

Homework #1

Homework #2

Homework #3

Homework #4

Homework #5

Homework #6

Test and Solutions

Test 1

Test 1 Solution

Test 2

Test 2 Solution

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