Dependable VLSI Platform using Robust Fabrics

Abstract

Technology scaling and growing complexity have an increasing impact on the resilience of VLSI circuits and systems. Severe challenges have been emerging for the realization of dependable VLSI circuits and systems with necessary and sufficient amount of reliability and security. For coping with the increasing threats on manufacturability, variability, and transient (soft) errors, we have been working on the development of “Dependable VLSI Platform using Robust Fabrics.” The project tackles the challenges with collaborative researches on layout, circuit, architecture, and design automation. Overview of the project as well as key achievements on the component-level (Fabrics) and the architecture-level (reconfigurable architecture) will be explained, followed by a brief introduction of the platform SoC and its C-based design tools.