Most previous low-power personal computer designs have been either focused on power efficiency improvement or on software power management in the working states. This research aims to reduce the total standby power amount in the off state. The authors accomplish the goal of reducing the power consumption by a wake-up device which is replaced by a chip with a still lower consumption. The authors...

This paper proposes a new fuzzy assessing procedure with application in management decision making. The proposed fuzzy approach build the membership functions for system characteristics of a standby repairable system. This method is used to extract a family of conventional crisp intervals from the fuzzy repairable system for the desired system characteristics. This can be determined with a set ...

Modern Power systems are smart, interconnected, interdependent, load sharing and phased mission systems. Reliability of such complex power systems is very important in design, planning, installation and maintenance to provide electrical energy as economical as possible with an acceptable degree of reliability. In this thesis four new methods for reliability evaluation and enhancement of power s...

Byzantine fault tolerant state machine replication (BFT-SMR) is a foundation for implementations of highly reliable services. Existing algorithms for BFT-SMR require at least 3f +1 active replicas to tolerate f faulty replicas. We show that BFT-SMR can be achieved with fewer than 3f +1 active replicas, as long as standby spare replicas are available, such that the number of active replicas plus...

Recently, FPGA-based NCS applications have been widely used. Industrial environments have a lot of electromagnetic interference which may induce transient and permanent faults. As a result, Fault-Tolerant FPGA based NCS applications are required. In this paper, an NCS model composed of a combination of S2A architecture and In-Loop architecture connected to each other through Ethernet switch, is...

Abstract In order to reduce the power dissipation of CMOS products, semiconductor manufacturers are reducing the power supply voltage. This requires that the transistor threshold voltages be reduced as well to maintain adequate performance and noise margins. However, this increases the subthreshold leakage current of p and n MOSFETs, which starts to offset the power savings obtained from power ...

We describe a low-power voltage amplifier that is suitable for RF (radio frequency) receivers in a WSN (wireless sensor network). Since a sensor node has a strict energy budget in a WSN, it often enters itself into a standby mode when no communication is required, and hence a standby power have to be suppressed as well as an active power in order to maximize a lifetime of a WSN. For this sake, ...

scaling is an efficient technique to reduce SRAM leakage power during standby mode. The data retention voltage (DRV) defines the minimum that can be applied to an SRAM cell without losing data. The conventional worst-case guard-banding approach selects a fixed standby supply voltage at design time to accommodate the variability of DRV, which sacrifices potential power savings for non-worst-case...

High-density, 90 nm CMOS technology has been suggested for generic, low-voltage, high-performance applications. In this paper, we describe some strategies for extending the previous technology in order to fabricate the following: 1) a low-standby-power transistor with high drivability for low-power applications, 2) a high-drivability transistor, inductor, and MIM capacitor for RF/analog applica...

Station autonomous computer system is the core of centralized traffic control (CTC) system. The working mode dual hot standby, and its reliability very important. Due to dynamic fuzzy issue with analysis station system, a method formulated based on fault tree (DFT) Markov model. First, structure principle standby double 2-vote-2 are analyzed, two systems DFT formulated. Then, failure rates dete...