Fault Tolerance in  

      Digital System Design

Special Session: SS3 at

DSD'2009 EUROMICRO CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL SYSTEM DESIGN

August 27 - 29, 2009, Patras, Greece

Download the CFP as pdf

BACKGROUND

The Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design addresses all aspects of (embedded) digital and mixed hardware/software system engineering. It is a discussion forum for researchers and engineers working on state-of-the-art investigations, development, and applications. It focuses on advanced system design and design automation concepts, paradigms, methods and tools, as well as modern implementation technologies.
For demanding applications it becomes increasingly important to include the fault tolerance features into the resulting design. For this purpose, various methodologies were developed for different design levels - the goal is to support dependability of components, units and systems.

SCOPE

The special session "Fault Tolerance in Digital Systems Design" addresses all aspects related to concepts, theory, implementations and applications of fault tolerance principles in digital systems design. Papers on any of the following and related topics will be considered for the special session:

• Defect/fault tolerant architectures (SoCs, NoCs, embedded systems).
• TMR based designs, voters.
• Dependability modeling, dependability analysis and validation.
• Design for testability in fault tolerant systems.
• FPGA based fault tolerant systems, partial/full reconfiguration based methodologies.
• Single-event upsets and effects, single-event transients.
• Fault injection techniques. Reliability analysis. 
• On-line testing, design of checkers, CED. 
• Communication protocols testing.
• Reliable IP cores.
• Fault tolerance in nanotechnologies.
• Fault tolerant design in practical applications. Reliable applications.
• Functional safety and IEC 61508.

Submission Deadline: March 16, 2009

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Prospective authors are encouraged to submit their manuscripts for review electronically trough the following web page (http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/dsd09) or by sending the paper to the Special Session Chair via email kotasek@fit.vutbr.cz (only in the case of the web access problem) before the deadline for submission (please indicate the topic area as: SS3). Each manuscript should include the complete paper text, all illustrations, and references. The manuscript should conform to the required format: single-spaced, double column, A4/US letter page size, 10-point size Times Roman font, up to 8 pages. In order to conduct a blind review, no indication of the authors' names should appear in the submitted manuscript.

The DSD'2009 web page should be consulted for the exact submission format.

The Proceedings of DSD'2008 will be published by the IEEE Computer Society.

IMPORTANT DATES

SESSION ORGANIZER & CONTACT INFORMATION

Zdenek Kotasek,  Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, Brno (CZ)

Contact Information:

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ch. Bolchini, Politecnico di Milano (IT)
G. Di Natale, LIRMM  (FR) 
G. Fey, University of Bremen (DE)
I. Koren, University of Massachusetts (US)
Z. Kotasek, Brno University of Technology (CZ)
H. Kubatova, Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ)
H. Manhaeve, Q-Star Test (BE)
I. Levin, Tel Aviv University  (IL)
S. Racek,  University of West Bohemia (CZ)
J. Raik, Tallin University of Technology (EE)
M. Rebaudengo, Politecnico di Torino (IT)
A. Steininger, Vienna University of Technology (AT)
J. P. Teixeira, IST/INESC-ID (PT)
H. T. Vierhaus, Brandenburg University Technology (DE)
 

IMPORTANT LINKS

Special Session web page: http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/events/dsd2009/
DSD'2009: http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/dsd09
Euromicro: http://www.euromicro.org/