High-reliability Electronic Systems Development and Implementation for Safety Applications

Abstract

It is known that modern electronic systems require increased safety in their operation. Despite of the remarcable technological achievments reached mostly in the last two decades, faults remains unavoidable in electronic systems. Therefore, failures occurrence in electronic circuits are the main causes of important material or finacial losses. This paper deals with challenging issues o fintelligent and high reliability electronic structures implementation for safety industrial applications. An intuitive development exemple it is unfolded in the paper that embedds both outstanding intelligence and high level of reliability. High reliability has been achieved by following redundancy implementation paradigms reyling in faults masking and and dynamic commutation strategy. Intelligence is expressed by electronic topologies that enables self-configuration of their internal structure in fault occurence operation states. These behaviors have beeen reached by using reconfigurable electronics and grid computing technologies. The final result of the unfolded research efforts is a high-reliability electronic system endowed both with high reliability and intelligent behaviors for a large scale of safety industrial applications.

Keywords

• reconfigurable electronics
• high reliability
• intelligence
• safety
• self-reconfiguration