This is the work of fault-tolerant designers and their work is increasingly important and complex not only because of the increasing number of "mission critical" applications, but also due to reduced reliability of hardware means that even systems for non-critical applications need to be designed with fault-tolerance in mind . Reflect real-world challenges faced by designers of these systems, this book discusses the design fault tolerance approach to both hardware and software systems. * The first book on fault tolerance design with a systems approach * Comprehensive coverage of both hardware and software fault tolerance, as well as information and time redundancy * Incorporated case studies highlight six different computer systems with fault-tolerance techniques implemented in their designs * Available to lecturers is in addition to a complete package including online solutions manual for instructors and PowerPoint slides