3C: IP Session - Soft Errors [Breaker page]

Radiation induced soft errors impose a major challenge in the design of robust systems targeted for enterprise computing and networking applications. Major factors behind this trend include increasing system-level soft error rates with technology scaling, and stringent system data integrity requirements of target applications. There are several challenges and gaps in understanding system behaviors in the presence of soft errors. Excessive power, performance and area overheads challenge direct application of classical redundancy techniques for soft error detection and recovery. This session will present industrial perspectives on how to improve our understanding of system-level effects of soft errors and design techniques for soft error resilient robust systems.