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by jaeckel 675 days ago
Would've been cool for safety applications if the second core could be run in lockstep mode.
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afaik that is a whole different rodeo on the silicon level
yeah lockstep requires a whole bunch of things to verify and break deadlocks. I suspect you need three processors to do that as well (so you know which one has fucked up.)
It is not necessary that there is triple modular redundancy with lockstep, I know of microcontrollers with two processors, who throw an error when the results from instructions don't match.
yes - two votes allows you to detect a disagreement, three votes allows two votes to win.