Periodic non-invasive diagnostics of lockstep systems
A diagnostic and processing system technology, applied in the direction of responding to the generation of errors, detecting faulty computer hardware, and redundant data in hardware for error detection, etc., can solve problems such as difficulties
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[0022] Aspects disclosed herein provide techniques for periodic non-invasive diagnostics of lockstep systems. According to an aspect of the invention, at least two comparator circuits are located between 2 computing engines (e.g., processors, processor cores) and compare the computer engines' memory accesses (e.g., to Tightly Coupled Memory (TCM), level 1 (L1) data cache, level 2 (L2) data cache, L1 instruction cache, L2 instruction cache, system memory, system I / O interface). If the compute engine is part of a CPU, the comparator circuit can also compare the compute engine's program counter (PC). The two comparator circuits can operate in one of three modes. In the first mode, the check of the compute engine is enabled on two comparator circuits, and both comparator circuits are used to diagnose whether the compute engine has successfully locked-step. In the second mode, the first comparator circuit is in a self-diagnostic state, and the second comparator is used to diagnos...
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