Robust System Design

Author

Mitra, Subhasish

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

3-7 Jan. 2010

Firstpage

434

Lastpage

439

Abstract

Robust system design ensures that future systems continue to meet user expectations despite rising levels of underlying disturbances. This paper discusses two essential aspects of robust system design: 1. Effective post-silicon validation, despite staggering complexity of future systems, using a new technique called Instruction Footprint Recording and Analysis (IFRA). 2. Cost-effective design of systems that overcome CMOS reliability challenges through built-in tolerance to errors in hardware during system operation. A combination of Built-In Soft Error Resilience (BISER) and circuit failure prediction, together with on-line self-test/diagnostics and software-orchestrated optimization across multiple abstraction layers, enable design of cost-effective resilient systems.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; automatic testing; built-in self test; error correction; failure analysis; fault tolerance; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit reliability; integrated circuit testing; CMOS reliability; built-in error tolerance; built-in soft error resilience; circuit failure prediction; instruction footprint recording and analysis; online self-test; post-silicon validation; robust system design; self-diagnostics; software-orchestrated optimization; user expectation; Circuits; Computer bugs; Computer crashes; Costs; Failure analysis; Hardware; Logic design; Open source software; Robustness; System analysis and design; BISER; Built-In Soft Error Resilience; Circuit Failure Prediction; IFRA; On-line Self-Test; Reliability; Robust systems; Validation; aging; post-silicon validation; soft errors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Design, 2010. VLSID '10. 23rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangalore

ISSN

1063-9667

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5541-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VLSI.Design.2010.77

Filename

5401207