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<strong>Modular</strong>ity issues<br />

• modularization decreases the size of the Line Removable<br />

Item from LRU “box” to LRM “module”<br />

• flexibility: add or remove functions <strong>and</strong> hardware<br />

• flexibility: change architecture (configure & reconfigure)<br />

• permits management of obsolescence: piece-meal update<br />

on modular basis, as technology & economics justify<br />

• reconfigurability, expansion to meet future needs by<br />

adding modules<br />

• facilitates fault tolerance (N+1 redundancy)<br />

- module = building block -<br />

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©1995-1997 F.M.G. Dörenberg

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