Path: utzoo!bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!bmers58!pdbain
From: pdbain@bmers58.UUCP (Peter Bain)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Parity in Internal Data Paths of Processors
Keywords: parity, error detection
Message-ID: <197@bmers58.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 89 14:31:53 GMT
References: <124311@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: pdbain@bmers58.UUCP (Peter Bain)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <124311@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> kum@sccmts.Sun.COM (Kumar Venkatasubramaniam) writes:
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>I am looking for information on the use of parity for error
>detection in large systems.  Apart from the obvious use in
>detecting errors in memory data and errors in long buses
>susceptible to noise, does anyone know of parity being 
>carried through the internal paths of a processor?
>Kumar Venkat
>Sun Microsystems
>kum@Corp.sun.com


 DOC_TYPE  journal-article
 TITLE     DPS 88 Error Detection and Recovery Features and Mechanisms
 AUTHOR    G.C. Edgington
 JOURNAL   Scientific Honeyweller
 VOLUME    5
 NUMBER    1
 YEAR      March 1984
 PAGES     8-10
 KEYWORDS  error recovery detection parity residue