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Due to the increasing integration of safety-critical functionalities into electronic devices, safety-related system design and certification have become a major challenge. Amongst others a suitable reaction of components in case of internal errors must be ensured in order to prevent a function from failing and to guarantee a certain degree of reliability. In this context a wide variety of different fault tolerance mechanisms have been developed in the past, including analytical considerations of error coverage and resulting reliability. However, most of these mechanisms induce a certain timing overhead, which in turn might affect the real-time capabilities of the system in a negative way. More concretely, even if each error is treated adequately such that no logical failure occurs, a timing failure due to missing a deadline cannot be ruled out definitely.