Impact of HW/SW partitioning on application level reliability

During hardware-software partitioning in embedded system design, the functionality of the system is partitioned into units for implementation in hardware or software. The decision which parts to implement in hardware or software is guided by performance, power and chip area requirements. While software reliability suffers mainly from design errors, a hardware implementation also suffers from physical failure mechanisms. Thus, different hardware-software partitionings possess different reliability characteristics.
In this thesis design alternatives of an embedded application of moderate complexity shall be evaluated regarding the reliability at application level. This can be achieved by analytical investigation or by empirical fault injection and design simulation.

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Wunderlich ( Email: wu@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de )
Michael Kochte ( Email: Michael.Kochte@iti.uni-stuttgart.de )