USING MULTIPLE FPGA IMPLEMENTED WATCHDOGS FOR IMPROVING OF EMBEDDED SYSTEMS RELIABILITY

Volume: 
Volume 11
Abstract 

The paper deals with the problem of fault-tolerant embedded systems. To ensure the system’s fault tolerance, we use the multiple watchdog system that assigns a dedicated hardware watchdog timer to each of the concurrent processes. For sake of simplicity, effectiveness and adaptability, the watchdogs are implemented in the programmable hardware devices. This approach has several advantages and provides a method for implementing the reliable fault-tolerant embedded systems.

Author 
Mária Pohronská Tibor Krajčovič