The VIPER Microprocessor,

Abstract

Most accidents are caused by human error. Computer control systems in aircraft, chemical plant, nuclear reactors and so on could in principle prevent many accidents, but in practice they are not reliable enough to be put in charge of human lives. This Report describes some of the developments in computer hardware and software which are needed before this situation can change, and introduces the VIPER microprocessor which has been designed specifically for ultra-reliable systems. In conjunction with a number of other RSRE Publications (see references) it defines the VIPER architecture formally and describes some of its supporting software.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA194561

Entities

People

  • J. Kershaw

Organizations

  • Royal Signals and Radar Establishment

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Arithmetic
  • Assembly
  • Assembly Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Errors
  • Floating Point Operations
  • High Level Languages
  • Instructions
  • Language
  • Manufacturing
  • Programming Languages
  • Reliability
  • Simulators
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Aviation Safety Risk Assessment.
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Software Engineering