Re: "Am I still working okay?" asked the micro controller...

From: CBFalconer (cbfalconer_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/19/04 

Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 14:54:55 GMT

jiang wrote:
>
>> One way to check hardware is to run another identical processor
>> and compare that they behave the same. If you have three or more
>> then you can perform voting so that the most popular answer is
>> the one that gets used.
>
> That is cool idea !..

And not so simple. What takes the vote? What if it fails? 

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