Fault Tolerance Design

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides guidance on designing medical device software that can reliably detect, contain, and recover from various types of faults, ensuring continued safe operation or graceful degradation.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Fault Detection: Implement mechanisms to monitor critical system resources and detect anomalies.
• Graceful Degradation: Define strategies for the software to operate in a reduced capacity or enter a safe state when faults occur.
• Redundancy: Incorporate redundant components or data paths for critical functions, especially for higher safety classes.
• Use Case: For a Class C medical device, use this skill to implement redundant sensors and a voting mechanism to ensure accurate readings even if one sensor fails.

Quick Start

Apply fault tolerance patterns to ensure critical control loops are resilient to failures.