Reliable Circuits Using Less Reliable Relays

From The Circuits and Biology Lab at UMN

Authors: E. F. Moore and C. E. Shannon
Murray Hill Laboratory, Bell Telephone Laboratories

Abstract: An investigation is made of relays whose reliability can be described in simple terms by means of probabilities. It is shown that by using a sufficiently large number of these relays in the proper manner, circuits can be built which are arbitrarily reliable, regardless of how unreliable the original relays are. Various properties of these circuits are elucidated.

Publication: J. Franklin Inst., 262, pages 191–208, 281–297, 1956.

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