Hubert Kirrmann

Fault Tolerance in Process Control: An Overview And Examples of European Products

Fult-tolerant architectures vary widely. The key to choosing a cost-effective plant control system is to provide no more redundancy than necessary.

Data Format and Bus Compatibility in Multiprocessors

Which end of the data egg gets broken first¿big or little? Do you start with the MSB or the LSB? For the proposed IEEE 896 bus, the most practical approach may be the little-endian one.

Events And Interrupts in Tightly Coupled Multiprocessors

In a decentralized multiprocessor, events must be stored, queued, and acknowledged. This can be accomplished by implementing a special event receiver called a synapse and by utilizing several forms of acknowledge.