Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering High Speed Digital Systems Lab Project performed by: Yoni Tzur Roni Ruach Project supervised by: Evgeny Fiksman

Computer system reliability is never perfect: Electromagnetic noise effects the signals Extreme physical conditions Murphy’s Law One solution approach is to take an odd number of components (three), give them the same job and use the result most components agree on.

High system reliability Majority vote between three processors Error detection and correction (if possible) Synchronization of the processors FPGA design tools learning

Processor I Processor III Processor II Voter I/O Bus Synchronizer Error Correction I/O Bus Tester

Testing software (written in C) XILINX ISE software Memec desing Virtex –II Pro Development kit including : Development board : Virtex- II Pro XILINX FPGA: XC2VP7 FG 456

Study the XILINX Environment: Study the Virtex II PRO Study the MicroBlaze Soft Processor 28/12/03 General design 6/1/04 Preparation of midterm presentation 13/1/04