Fault-Tolerance Projects at Stanford CRC

This paper describes the fault-tolerant computing research currently active at Stanford University’s Center for Reliable Computing. One focus is on tolerating hardware faults by means of software (software-implemented hardware fault tolerance). This work mainly targets faults caused by radiation induced upsets. An experiment evaluating the techniques that we have developed, is currently running on the ARGOS satellite. Another focus is on fault-tolerance techniques for adaptive computing systems implemented with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).

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