Early comparison and decision strategies for datapaths that recover from transient faults

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 435-438

  Narasimhan, Ragini ^a   Rosenkrantz, Daniel J ^a   Ravi, S S ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault tolerance; High level synthesis; Rollback and retry

Indexed keywords

COMPARATOR CIRCUITS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DECISION THEORY; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ERRORS; TRANSIENTS;

DATAPATH SYNTHESIS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPARATORS; TRANSIENT FAULTS;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031143451     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/81.572339     Document Type: Article

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