Reliability of protecting techniques used in fault-tolerant Cache memories

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 820-823

  Miremadi, Seyed Ghassem ^a   Zarandi, Hamid R ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cache reliability; Error recovery; Protection code; Transient error

Indexed keywords

CACHE RELIABILITY; ERROR RECOVERY; PROTECTION CODES; TRANSIENT ERRORS;

CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA RECORDING; ERROR DETECTION; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CACHE MEMORY;

EID: 33751341853     PISSN: 08407789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCECE.2005.1557054     Document Type: Conference Paper

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