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 ...

The ability to continue non-stop when a hardware failure occurs. A fault-tolerant system is designed from the ground up for reliability by building multiples of critical components, such as CPUs, ...

New x-by-wire systems (steer-by-wire and brake-by-wire) being developed by vehicle manufacturers and their suppliers require fault tolerance. There's no fail-safe state to which these systems can ...

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 ...

Quantum computing has become one of the most hyped frontiers in technology, yet the companies most loudly promising breakthroughs are not always the ones best positioned to deliver. International ...

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 ...