Daniel P. Siewiorek

Mario R. Barbacci

This book is designed to present the student with a computer description notation, ISP, and a methodology for the analysis of computer architectures. The overall motivation is to present the space of architecture features spanned by a collection of representative machines rather than presenting yet another paper machine, designed solely for pedagogical reasons. Each chapter of this book is meant to illustrate some aspect of the architecture space. Each feature is presented and discussed in terms of the same set of machines. The student is assumed to have some background in digital logic, assembly language programming, numeric representation in different bases and conversion between bases.

The Design and Analysis of Instruction Set Processors

Robert S. Swarz

This classic reference work is a comprehensive guide to the design, evaluation, and use of reliable computer systems. It includes case studies of reliable systems from manufacturers, such as Tandem, Stratus, IBM, and Digital. It covers special systems such as the Galileo Orbiter fault protection system and AT&T telephone switching system processors

Design and Evaluation, Third Edition

Reliable Computer Systems

C. Gordon Bell

Allen Newell

SIEWIOREK DANIEL P

Computer Systems Organization -- general.

Principles and Examples

Computer Structures

Edward W. Czeck

Zary Z. Segall

This report presents a model for fault insertion through software, describes its implementation on a fault tolerant computer, FTMP, presents a summary of fault detection, identifications, and reconfiguration data collected with software implemented fault insertion and compares the results to hardware fault insertion data. The software fault insertion model assumes faults manifest to data errors at the output of a task. The implementation of the software fault insertion model on FTMP allows inserted faults to emulate faults in the processor data path, processor control path, system memory, and system transmit bus. The experimental results showed detection time there was no correlation between software inserted faults, and hardware inserted faults; this is because hardware inserted faults must manifest to errors before detection, whereas software inserted faults immediately exercise the error detection mechanisms. In summary, although software fault insertion does not map directly to hardware fault insertion, experiments indicate software fault insertion as a means to characterize the fault handling capabilities of a system in error detection, identification, and error recovery. Keywords: Debugging(Computers); Computer program reliability; Computer aided diagnosis.

An FTMP Example

Software Implemented Fault Insertion

William P. Birmingham

Anurag P. Gupta

Addressing the issues of engineering design in computer architecture, this book describes the design and implementation of MICON, a system for automating the synthesis of small computers.

Daniel P. Siewiorek

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