The present invention provides a word voter for redundant systems with n modules
wherein each of these n modules generates a word output. The word voter receives
word outputs from each of the n modules. A voter decision is generated by the word
voter utilizing a word basis of the word output of each of the n modules. The voter
is based on a majority voting principle. The advantage of the present invention
is that the word voter can be used to design redundant systems, such as, but not
limited to, TMR systems, that are protected against common mode and multiple output
failures. In addition, another advantage of the present invention is that is provides
for a technique to efficiently design a TMR simplex system. The present invention
provides a word voter for hardware systems.
