A new methodology for the design of low-cost fail safe circuits and networks
B.R. Kishore, Rubin Parekhji, Sandeep Pagey, Sunil D. Sherlekar, G. Venkatesh · 2002
Fail safe circuits find widespread application in safety critical electronic systems. This paper presents a new methodology for their design. The main contributions of the paper are formulation of the design of fail safe circuits and networks as input-output encoding problems, and proposing a new output encoding technique based on graph embedding for their low-cost design. This design methodology is independent of the functional dependence between the inputs and outputs, and provides a systematic framework for exploring different implementations of fail safe circuits for graceful degradation.