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Article #2167Re: Parity in Internal Data Paths of Processors
From: Roy Smith
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1989 13:22
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1989 13:22
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In <124311@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> kum@sccmts.Sun.COM (Kumar Venkatasubramaniam):
> does anyone know of parity being carried through the internal paths of a
> processor?
The AT&T 3B20D does. This was (is?) the machine which drives the
5ESS phone switches. Every internal data path is parity checked or
duplicated and compared in places where parity is impractical, like the ALU
(I don't know of any way to calculate the parity of, for example, an
integer multiply). There was a special issue of BSTJ on it about 5-10
years ago.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!topgun.dspo.gov!lanl!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Parity in Internal Data Paths of Processors Keywords: parity, error detection Message-ID: <3983@phri.UUCP> Date: 8 Sep 89 13:22:40 GMT References: <124311@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 15