Search for dissertations about: "Permanent Faults"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 23 swedish dissertations containing the words Permanent Faults.
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1. Reconfigurable NoC and Processors Tolerant to Permanent Faults
Abstract : Advances in semiconductor industry have led to reduced transistor dimensions andincreased device density, but inevitably they have compromised the reliability of moderncomputing systems. In this thesis, we address the reliability problemby exploitinghardware reconfiguration for tolerating permanent faults. READ MORE
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2. Fault Injection for Studying Error Behavior and Validation of Error Detecting Mechanisms
Abstract : This thesis deals with the design and validation of low-cost error detecting mechanisms that can be used to implement self-checking computers. The research objectives of the thesis are three-fold: (i) to investigate and develop a simulation-based fault injection technique that can be used on a wide range of VHDL simulation models, (ii) to investigate error propagation mechanisms in microprocessors in order to understand how to design low-cost error detecting mechanisms and (iii) to design and validate error detecting mechanisms. READ MORE
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3. On Concurrent Error Detection and Error Propagation
Abstract : This thesis addresses three important steps in the selection of error detection mechanisms for microprocessors: (i) the design and evaluation of error detection mechanisms, (ii) the study of microprocessor error behavior and propagation and (iii) the design and use of error models. The first part of the thesis evaluates four error detection methods with respect to para- meters such as error detection coverage and performance loss, while the second and third parts focus on determining the error patterns most likely to occur in a computer system when different types of faults are present and how to incorporate those error patterns into error models. READ MORE
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4. On the Design and Validation of Fault Containment Regions in Distributed Communication Systems
Abstract : This thesis has a two fold focus where the first is an evaluation of a time-triggered communication protocol implementation, TTP-C1, which was stressed by use of heavy-ion fault injection. The gathered result showed a novel type of failures, earlier known only from theory, so-called slightly-out-of-specification faults, that manifested as Byzantine failures with resulting system inconsistence. READ MORE
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5. Demagnetization and Fault Simulations of Permanent Magnet Generators
Abstract : Permanent magnets are today widely used in electrical machines of all sorts. With their increase in popularity, the amount of research has increased as well. In the wind power project at Uppsala University permanent magnet synchronous generators have been studied for over a decade. READ MORE