Title :
Experiments of faults on the “Happa” system and a proposal of backup RAM technique
Author :
Iwasaki, Kazuhiko ; Yoshikawa, Hideyuki ; Furuta, Akinori
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Eng., Chiba Univ., Japan
Abstract :
On the “Happa” parallel microcomputer system, faults were experimentally examined for the boundary of its operating range. Global bus faults, torus communication faults, and others were observed. A backup RAM technique is proposed for bus faults
Keywords :
back-up procedures; computer testing; fault tolerant computing; microcomputers; parallel architectures; random-access storage; system buses; Happa system; backup RAM technique; global bus faults; parallel microcomputer; torus communication faults; Circuit faults; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Fault diagnosis; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Microcomputers; Proposals; Read-write memory; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
Test Symposium, 1994., Proceedings of the Third Asian
Conference_Location :
Nara
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-6690-0
DOI :
10.1109/ATS.1994.367208
