公开(公告)号：JPH09128353A

公开(公告)日：1997-05-16

申请号：JP14605696

申请日：1996-06-07

Applicant: TANDEM COMPUTERS INC

Inventor： DEIBUITSUDO POORU SOONIA ,  UIRIAMU EDOWAADO BEIKAA ,  UIRIAMU PATAASON BANTON ,  JIYON SHII KURAUSU ,  KENISU EICHI POOTAA ,  UIRIAMU JIYOERU WATOSON ,  RINDA ERIN ZARUZAARA

IPC: G06F11/18 ,  G01R31/317 ,  G01R31/3185 ,  G06F1/12 ,  G06F9/52 ,  G06F11/00 ,  G06F11/10 ,  G06F11/16 ,  G06F11/20 ,  G06F11/273 ,  G06F12/08 ,  G06F12/14 ,  G06F12/16 ,  G06F13/00 ,  H04L12/56 ,  H04L29/14 ,  G06F15/16

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the processing system cost by providing an error inspecting function and masking a fault through hardware in duplex mode operation. SOLUTION: A data processing system 10 is equipped with two subprocessor systems 10A and 10B which have the same constitution and functions. This pair of the subprocessor systems 10A and 10B include a processor device (CPU) 12, a router 14, and an I/O packet interface 16 having a relative I/O device 17. Each of the pair of the CPUs 12 receive an error signal and returns an echo-back error signal to a couple of data communication elements. Then it is determined whether or not each CPU 12 continues to operate according to the error signal and echo-back error signal; and then one of the CPUs 12 continues to operate and the other CPU 12 finishes operating.