• DocumentCode
    1153984
  • Title

    Can Redundancy and Masking Improve the Performance of Synchronizers?

  • Author

    Kleeman, Lindsay ; Cantoni, Antonio

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Newcastle
  • Issue
    7
  • fYear
    1986
  • fDate
    7/1/1986 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    643
  • Lastpage
    646
  • Abstract
    This paper considers the possibility of achieving improvements in the reliability of synchronizing an asynchronous signal, by exploiting redundancy and masking. Redundancy and masking techniques have been applied successfully to mask both permanent and transient hardware faults. However, it is shown in this paper that redundancy and masking techniques are ineffective against synchronization failures which arise because of metastable behavior of synchronizing elements.
  • Keywords
    Asynchronous inputs; masking; metastable behavior; redundancy; synchronizer; Australia; Circuit faults; Clocks; Flip-flops; Hardware; Logic circuits; Metastasis; Redundancy; Synchronization; Voting; Asynchronous inputs; masking; metastable behavior; redundancy; synchronizer;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computers, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9340
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TC.1986.1676806
  • Filename
    1676806
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1153984