A novel approach for operating systems protection against single event upset

Author

Swiercz, B. ; Makowski, D. ; Napieralski, A.

Author_Institution

Tech. Univ. of Lodz

fYear

2006

fDate

22-24 June 2006

Firstpage

61

Lastpage

64

Abstract

Modern high-energy physics experiments require sophisticated and complex control systems. The control systems should be able to tolerate radiation generated by high-energy accelerators and thus reliability is important feature. Reliability of control systems depends on hardware and software quality. Hardware solutions are the most effective techniques to protect system against radiation influence. Commercial of the shelf (COTS) elements are used often and protection mechanisms are moved from hardware to software layer, due to cost-effective design. This paper highlights the new approach to protect systems on software level. The protection against soft errors is assured by operating system that is transparent to other applications

Keywords

high energy physics instrumentation computing; nuclear electronics; operating systems (computers); radiation hardening (electronics); control systems; hardware quality; high-energy accelerators; high-energy physics experiments; operating systems protection; single event upset; soft errors; software quality; Application software; Computer architecture; Control systems; Electron accelerators; Embedded computing; Hardware; Kernel; Operating systems; Protection; Single event upset;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and System, 2006. MIXDES 2006. Proceedings of the International Conference

Conference_Location

Gdynia

Print_ISBN

83-922632-2-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MIXDES.2006.1706538

Filename

1706538