5a: Panel session ?? Robust design from unreliable components: Why? When? How?

Summary form only given, as follows. Design of robust systems meeting stringent quality, reliability, and availability requirements is becoming increasingly difficult in advanced technologies. The current design paradigm assumes that no gate or interconnect will ever fail within the lifetime of a product. The panelists will debate whether this design paradigm must change, and whether new architectural features are required for robust system design with built-in mechanisms for failure tolerance, detection and recovery during normal operation.