Special Purpose Systems Design

Course Outline

Introduction 

•    Dependability as a Design Goal
•    Applications
•   Terminology, Complexity and Models

Faults, Errors, Failures 

•   Physical Causes of Faults
•   Fault Characteristics
•   Common Fault Models
•   Common Error Models

Design Techniques 

•    Hardware Redundancy
•    Information Redundancy
•   Time Redundancy
•   Software Redundancy

Application of the Developed Theory 

• Design Cycle Modification to accommodate Dependability
• A Design Example