System reliability has become a key design aspect for computer systems due to the aggressive technology miniaturization. Errors are typically dominated by transient faults due to radiation and are strongly related to the ...

The ability of CNNs to efficiently and accurately perform complex functions, such as object detection, has fostered their adoption in safety-related autonomous systems. These algorithms require high computational performance ...

Autonomous Driving (AD) systems rely on object detection and tracking algorithms that require processing high volumes of data at high frequency. High-performance graphics processing units (GPUs) have been shown to provide ...

The computing capacity demanded by embedded systems is on the rise as software implements more functionalities, ranging from best-effort entertainment functions to performance-guaranteed safety-related functions. Heterogeneous ...

Probabilistic Timing Analysis (PTA) allows complex hardware acceleration features, which defeat classic timing analysis, to be used in hard real-time systems. PTA can do that because it drastically reduces intrinsic ...

Critical Real-Time Embedded Systems require functional and timing validation to prove that they will perform their functionalities correctly and in time. For timing validation, a bound to the Worst-Case Execution Time ...

Critical real-time systems require the estimation of the worst-case execution time (WCET) for scheduling purposes and resource budgeting. Measurement-based probabilistic timing analysis (MBPTA) has been shown recently as ...

The verification and validation process of embedded critical systems requires providing evidence of their functional correctness and also that their non-functional behavior stays within limits. In this work, we focus on ...

Systolic array architectures have recently emerged as successful accelerators for deep convolutional neural network (CNN) inference. Such architectures can be used to efficiently execute general matrix–matrix multiplications ...

Semiconductor technology evolution enables the design of resource-constrained battery-powered ultra-low-cost chips required for new market segments such as environment, urban life and body monitoring. Caches have been shown ...