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- Authors:
- Andrew Hussey and Brenton Atchison
- Title:
- Safe Architectural Design Principles
- Date:
- July 2000.
- Keywords:
- safety-critical, architecture, fault tolerance.
- Abstract:
- This report discusses architectures for safety-critical sysems. The report summarises the existing literature in the area as well as the guidance provided by existing safety-critical system development standards. We discuss the three constituent functions of fault tolerant architectures: error detection, damage assessment and confinement and error recovery. We also consider methods for fault prevention.