Configuration and method to guarantee high integrity data in a redundant voting data system

Abstract

Devices systems and methods are disclosed providing a highly fault tolerant Command, Control, and Data Handling (CC&DH) system immune to byzantine faults. The system includes a plurality of High Integrity Computing Elements each capable of delivering data immune to byzantine faults, an arbitrary communication interface, and a number of peripheral devices providing input and output to the system. The system is capable of providing high integrity data immune to byzantine faults throughout the system. Using one greater High Integrity Computing Elements than the number of faults required allows for implementation of a wide range of redundant systems including dual, triple, quad, and beyond redundancy using voting computers. The system is implemented using any number of standard computing elements, which is greater than two, a communication abstraction, data exchange, mission algorithm, and data comparison producing data immune to byzantine errors to the remaining peripherals in the system.

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