A practitioner's guide to software-based soft-error mitigation using AN-codes

Proceedings - 2014 IEEE 15th International Symposium on High-Assurance Systems Engineering, HASE 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 33-40

  Hoffmann, Martin ^a   Ulbrich, Peter ^a   Dietrich, Christian ^a   Schirmeier, Horst ^b   Lohmann, Daniel ^a   Schroder Preikschat, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

AN code; Arithmetic error coding; Fault injection; Redundancy; Soft errors; Software based fault tolerance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; REDUNDANCY; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

AN CODE; ARITHMETIC ERRORS; CODING THEORY; FAULT INJECTION; MACHINE CODES; PRACTICAL MEASURES; SOFT ERROR; SOFT ERROR MITIGATIONS;

RADIATION HARDENING;

EID: 84898643057     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HASE.2014.14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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