Title :
The effects of intermittent faults on the reliability of digital systems
Author :
Prasad, Vinod B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng. Technol., Bradley Univ., Peoria, IL, USA
Abstract :
Reliability of a system is evaluated on the basis of faults which are permanent in nature, but in reality system failures are due to faults which are intermittent in nature. Intermittent fault describes a fault or an error that is occasionally present due to unstable hardware or software states. When the system is subject to intermittent and permanent faults, a model for studying reliability of digital systems is set up in this paper which is based on Markov model containing three states
Keywords :
Markov processes; fault tolerant computing; reliability; Markov model; digital systems; intermittent faults; reliability; system failures; Availability; Computer errors; Digital systems; Hardware; Logic; Modems; Quality control; Stress;
Conference_Titel :
Southeastcon '90. Proceedings., IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
DOI :
10.1109/SECON.1990.117960
