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Patent
G - Physics
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F
354/230.5
G06F 11/14 (2006.01) G06F 11/16 (2006.01) G06F 11/18 (2006.01) G06F 11/20 (2006.01) G11C 29/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2003337
ABSTRACT: A computer system in a fault-tolerant configuration employs multiple identical CPUs executing the same instruction stream, with multiple, identical memory modules in the address space of the CPUs storing duplicates of the same data. The multiple CPUs are loosely synchronized, as by detecting events such as memory references and stalling any CPU ahead of others until all execute the function simultaneously; interrupts can be synchronized by ensuring that all CPUs implement the interrupt at the same point in their instruction stream. Memory references via the separate CPU-to-memory busses are voted at the three separate ports of each of the memory modules. I/O functions are implemented using two identical I/O busses, each of which is separately coupled to only one of the memory modules. A number of I/O processors arc coupled to both I/O busses. I/O devices are accessed through a pair of identical (redundant) I/O processors, but only one is designated to actively control a given device; in case of failure of one I/O processor, however, an I/O device can be accessed by the other one without system shutdown, i.e., by merely redesignating the addresses of the registers of the I/O device under instruction control.
Allison John D.
Banton Randall G.
Cutts Richard W. Jr.
Debacker Kenneth C.
Horst Robert W.
Allison John D.
Banton Randall G.
Cutts Richard W. Jr.
Debacker Kenneth C.
Gowling Lafleur Henderson Llp
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