Computers are everywhere around us. We, for example, as air passengers, car drivers, laptop users with Internet connection, cell phone owners, hospital patients, inhabitants in the vicinity of a nuclear power station, students in a digital library or customers in a supermarket are dependent on their correct operation. Computers are incredibly fast, inexpensive and equipped with almost unimag- able large storage capacity. Up to 100 million transistors per chip are quite common today - a single transistor for each citizen of a large capital city in the world can be 2 easily accommodated on an ordinary chip. The size of such a chip is less than 1 cm . This is a fantastic achievement for an unbelievably low price. However, the very small and rapidly decreasing dimensions of the transistors and their connections over the years are also the reason for growing problems with reliability that will dramatically increase for the nano-technologies in the near future. Can we always trust computers? Are computers always reliable? Are chips suf- ciently tested with respect to all possible permanent faults if we buy them at a low price or have errors due to undetected permanent faults to be discovered by c- current checking? Besides permanent faults, many temporary or transient faults are also to be expected.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer-Verlag NY Inc.
ISBN-13
9781402084195
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95569647
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Electrical Engineering
Author
Egor Sogomonyan, Vitaly Ocheretny, Michael Goessel, Daniel Marienfeld
Publication Name
New Methods of Concurrent Checking
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Computer Science, Physics
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
182 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
155mm
Volume
42
Item Weight
990g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Egor Sogomonyan, Daniel Marienfeld, Michael Goessel, Vitaly Ocheretny
Series Title
Frontiers in Electronic Testing
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Best Selling in School Textbooks & Study Guides
Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best Selling in School Textbooks & Study Guides