RE: Self-repairing processor

Former Member — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:10:34 GMT

I think that fault-tolerant better describes this solution then self-repairing , because from what I understand

it cannot repair corrupted parts only reallocate tasks from them to other cores.

RE: Self-repairing processor

DAB — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:45:19 GMT

There was a lot of work done on this subject by TRW during the 1990's for integrated avionics. They approached the problem by using one processor to come up as the master, but each processor in turn would have a timed delay to see if the a master had asserted control. If not, then the next processor that timed out would assume master control and allocate the processors to tasks as needed. Based on the block diagram, a similar approach would probably work here.

Thanks,

DAB