Watchdog Processors

Ph.D. thesis:

• Concurrent Error Detection in Multiprocessor Systems Using Watchdog Processors
• Summary in Hungarian
• Summary in English
• Introduction to the topic
• Slides (in Hungarian)
• Overview slides (in English)

Projects:

• Watchdog processor for the MEMSY multiprocessor
• Slides (Adobe Acrobat PDF)
• Implementation (GIF)
• Watchdog processor for IBM PC
• Student project (in Hungarian)
• Student's conference paper (in Hungarian)

Publications:

• Pataricza, A.; Majzik, I.; Hohl, W.; Hönig, J.:

Watchdog Processors in Parallel Systems.
(Proc. Euromicro'93, 19th Symposium on Microprocessing and Microprogramming, Barcelona, 1993)
Microprocessing and Microprogramming Vol. 39,  pp 69-74, 1993
• Majzik, I.; Pataricza, A.:

Control Flow Checking in Multitasking Systems.
Periodica Polytechnica Ser. Electrical Engineering, TU Budapest, Vol. 39, No. 1,  pp 27-36, 1995
• Majzik, I.; Hohl, W.; Pataricza, A.; Sieh, W.:

Multiprocessor Checking Using Watchdog Processors.
International Journal of Computer Systems - Science & Engineering, Vol. 11, No. 5,  pp 123-132, 1996
• Majzik, I.:

Software Diagnosis Using Compressed Signature Sequences.
Periodica Polytechnica Ser. Electrical Engineering, TU Budapest, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp 87-103, 1996

• Majzik, I.; Pataricza, A.; Dal Cin, M.; Hohl, W.; Hönig, J.; Sieh, V.:

Hierarchical Checking of Multiprocessors Using Watchdog Processors.
In K. Echtle, D. Hammer, D. Powell (Eds.): Dependable Computing - EDCC-1 (Proceedings of the First European Dependable Computing Conference, Berlin, Germany, October 1994), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 852, Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, pp 386-403, 1994
• Majzik, I.; Pataricza, A.; Hohl, W.; Hönig, J.; Sieh, V.:

A High-speed Watchdog Processor for Multitasking Systems.
In A. Pataricza, E. Selényi, A. Somogyi (Eds.): Proceedings of the Eight Symposium on Microcomputer and Microprocessor Applications, October 1994, Budapest Technical University, Budapest, Hungary, Vol. I.,  pp 65-74, 1994
• Majzik, I.:

Software Monitoring and Debugging Using Compressed Signature Sequences
Proc. of the 22nd Euromicro Conference (Prague, Czech Republic),  pp. 311-318, 1996
• Majzik, I.:

Watchdog Processors: Checking Process Synchronization
Short note on the 22nd Euromicro Conference (Prague, Czech Republic),  1996