Radtest - Testing Board for the Software Implemented Hardware Fault Tolerance Research

Abstract

Modern experiments in particle physics are based on advanced and sophisticated electronic systems which have to operate under radiation impact. The problem of designing a hardened system becomes very important, especially in places such as accelerators and synchrotrons where the results of the experiments depend on control system based on digital devices eg. microcontrollers. This paper highlights new solutions of the reliability problem known as the software implemented hardware fault tolerance. That is a strict software approach and could be used with unhardened, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components.