Fault tolerant design focuses on keeping the system running or safe in spite of failures usually through the use of independent and redundant resources in the system. Implementing redundant resources ...

For many applications, the primary focus of robust design principles is on making the design resilient to rare or unexpected real world phenomenon. Embedded designers often employ filters to help ...

Fault-tolerant digital circuit design is a critical field that seeks to ensure the uninterrupted operation of electronic systems even when individual components fail ...

Power system users don't always have a clear idea of power system configurations that provide fault tolerance. As a result, users may specify a configuration beyond what's needed or intended, which ...

Designers parallel their power supplies to increase system power output or to provide fault tolerance. In this column, Contributing Editor Tom Curatolo discusses various techniques for load sharing ...

Embedded electronic control units are finding their way into more and more complex safety critical and mission critical applications. Many of these applications operate in adverse conditions, which ...

In technical literature, there are many valid ways to define a system, and an embedded system in particular. For the purposes of this article we will use one of the most general and classic model of ...

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could soon outperform classical computers on some complex computational problems. These computers rely on ...

It was the proverbial dark and stormy night. The access control and security system master controller located on the fifth floor of a high rise building just experienced a total failure. It's totally ...