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US 2021/0063486 A1Published application
Failure Prediction System and Method
AssigneeMellanox Technologies, Ltd.
InventorsSagi Rotem, Roee Shapiro, Ihab Khoury
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Abstract
A method including determining, for a given hardware link, whether a signal error rate for signals sent over the given hardware link is beyond a given threshold, when the signal error rate is beyond the given threshold, generating an error indication for the given hardware link, the error indication including a prediction that a hardware component associated with the given hardware link is likely to fail. Related apparatus and methods are also provided.
Claims22
A method comprising:
- determining, for a given hardware link, whether a signal error rate for signals sent over the given hardware link is beyond a given threshold;
- and
- when the signal error rate is beyond the given threshold, generating an error indication for the given hardware link, the error indication comprising a prediction that a hardware component associated with the given hardware link is likely to fail.
A failure forecasting system comprising:
- link fail forecast circuitry configured to determine, for a given hardware link, whether a signal error rate for signals sent over the given hardware link is beyond a given threshold;
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- error determination circuitry configured, when the signal error rate is beyond the given threshold, to generate an error indication for the given hardware link, the error indication comprising a prediction that a hardware component associated with the given hardware link is likely to fail.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.