Christian Sauer

Ahmet Cagri Bagbaba, Maksim Jenihhin, Jaan Raik et al.

This work proposes a fault injection methodology where Hardware Description Language (HDL) code slicing is exploited to prune fault injection locations, thus enabling more efficient campaigns for safety mechanisms evaluation. In particular, the dynamic HDL slicing technique provides for a highly collapsed critical fault list and allows avoiding injections at redundant locations or time-steps. Experimental results show that the proposed methodology integrated into commercial tool flow doubles the simulation speed when comparing to the state-of-the-art industrial-grade EDA tool flows.

Maksim Jenihhin, Said Hamdioui, Matteo Sonza Reorda et al.

The recent trends for nanoelectronic computing systems include machine-to-machine communication in the era of Internet-of-Things (IoT) and autonomous systems, complex safety-critical applications, extreme miniaturization of implementation technologies and intensive interaction with the physical world. These set tough requirements on mutually dependent extra-functional design aspects. The H2020 MSCA ITN project RESCUE is focused on key challenges for reliability, security and quality, as well as related electronic design automation tools and methodologies. The objectives include both research advancements and cross-sectoral training of a new generation of interdisciplinary researchers. Notable interdisciplinary collaborative research results for the first half-period include novel approaches for test generation, soft-error and transient faults vulnerability analysis, cross-layer fault-tolerance and error-resilience, functional safety validation, reliability assessment and run-time management, HW security enhancement and initial implementation of these into holistic EDA tools.