By
Parag Lala, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Description
With VLSI chip transistors getting smaller and smaller, today's digital systems are more complex than ever before. This increased
complexity leads to more cross-talk, noise, and other sources of transient errors during normal operation. Traditional off-line testing
strategies cannot guarantee detection of these transient faults. And with critical applications relying on faster, more powerful chips,
fault-tolerant, self-checking mechanisms must be built in to assure reliable operation.
Self-Checking and Fault-Tolerant Digital
Design deals extensively with self-checking design techniques and is the only book that emphasizes major techniques for hardware
fault tolerance. Graduate students in VLSI design courses as well as practicing designers will appreciate this balanced treatment of
the concepts and theory underlying fault tolerance along with the practical techniques used to create fault-tolerant systems.
