The distinction between safety and liveness properties is due to Lamport who gave the following informal characterization. Safety properties assert that nothing bad ever happens w...
We define a Mobile Database Community (MDBC) as a dynamic collection of autonomous mobile databases in which each database user can access databases in the community through a wir...
Safety is increasingly important for software based, critical systems. Fault tree analysis (FTA) is a safety technique from engineering, developed for analyzing and assessing syste...
Abstract—Built-In Self-Test (BIST) is less often applied to random logic than to embedded memories due to the following reasons: Firstly, for a satisfiable fault coverage it may...
Modern FPGAs have been designed with advanced integrated circuit techniques that allow high speed and low power performance, joined to reconfiguration capabilities. This makes new...