Active Reliability Engineering - Technical Concept and Program Plan. A Solid-State Systems Approach to Increased Reliability and Availability in Military Systems.

Abstract

A technical program plan for a technology base development of a self-repair concept for complex digital systems is presented in this document. The underlying technical concept provides for bridging the gap between traditional fault tolerance and standard passive reliability engineering techniques by the coupling of statistical techniques to the application of redundancy and use of intelligent control circuitry for switching between redundant units. This technique can provide significant increases in the statistical availability of Navy systems at reasonable increase in cost, even though it may not prove absolute tolerance of one or more faults. A program plan is presented for the development of this technology base as well as application to specific areas of interest, including multicomputer networks and VLSI/VHSIC integrated circuits. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 05, 1983
Accession Number
ADA137541

Entities

People

  • D. D. Hall

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Data Processing
  • Data Transmission
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Network Architecture
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Software Development
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Equipment
  • Very Large Scale Integration

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.