ECE 753: FAULT-TOLERANT

COMPUTING
Kewal K.Saluja
Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering

Reliability Modeling and Analysis

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ECE 753 Fault Tolerant Computing

Overview
Introduction
Reliability Modeling
reliability block diagram
combinatorial model
Markov model

Other Parameters and analysis

General remarks and Summary
ECE 753 Fault Tolerant Computing

Introduction
References
Text
[prad:96], [swew:99], [shooman:02]
[triv:82] and [triv:01]
Text covers all the material of this part and the books in the
second line (three books) contain sufficient material to cover
this part of the course

Recap of definitions
Importance of analysis and analytical model
Mathematical formulation for quantitative
analysis
ECE 753 Fault Tolerant Computing

Introduction (contd.)
Recap of definitions
Reliability R(t)
Availability A(t)
Performability and Dependability

Importance of analysis and analytical

model
to evaluate a design
a metric to compare different designs
to provide feedback to the designer during early design
stages
use a model for performance analysis
used for quantitative and qualitative analysis
ECE 753 Fault Tolerant Computing