Improvements in chip manufacturing technology have propelled an astonishing growth of computing systems that are integrated into our daily lives. However, this trend is facing serious challenges, both at device and system levels. At the device level, as the minimum feature size continues to shrink, a host of vulnerabilities influence the robustness, reliability, and availability of embedded and critical systems. Some of these factors are caused by the stochastic nature of the nanoscale manufacturing process (e.g., process variability, sub-wavelength lithographic inaccuracies), while other factors appear because of high operating frequencies and nanoscale dimensions (e.g., RLC noise, on-chip temperature variation, increased sensitivity to radiation and transistor aging). At the other end of the spectrum, these systems are seeing a tremendous increase in software content. Whereas traditional software design paradigms have assumed that the underlying hardware is fully predictable and error-free, there is now a critical need to build a software stack that is responsive to variations, and resilient against emerging vulnerabilities in the underlying hardware.
The interdisciplinary topic of cross layer resiliency spans various disciplines and requires collaboration and cooperation of various communities such as design automation, testing and design for testability, computer architecture, embedded systems and software, validation and verification, fabrication, device, circuits, and systems. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of this work, the study of topics has been distributed over different venues of these communities and therefore we felt a strong need for a dedicated event that can bridge the gap among the disciplines and bring together the experts from various involved communities to address the challenges of cross-layer resiliency. The first edition of this workshop, IWCR 2013, was held in Austin TX in July 2013, and attracted a diverse group of experts and started building a new community (please see a workshop report here). The second edition of the workshop, IWCR 2014 in Marina del Rey near Los Angeles, built on the success of the first workshop and discussions continued to evolve. As intended, collaborationsorations across different layers were spawned by the past workshops.
The objective of this year’s workshop is to continue to build this community of experts interested in multi-level resiliency challenges and solutions and possible paradigm shifts to consider reliability throughout the design flow, from devices to systems and applications. IWCR 2016 will include invited talks by industry experts, short presentations and posters from University researchers (including many whose research was funded by the leading funding agencies in Germany, Japan, UK, and the US), with significant time devoted to in-depth discussions in small breakout groups to identify key technical themes and opportunities for collaborations. We will put more emphasis on posters, in order to facilitate lively discussions. As in the past, IWCR will also invite program managers who supervise national funding programs in the area of resiliency at leading funding agencies. In this manner, IWCR 2016 will explore international collaborations and foster international cross-agency funding opportunities by building upon the experience from various national funded programs currently being executed in the general area of resiliency.
Featured Speakers:
- Jim Aralis, Microsemi
- Sriprakash Sarathy, Northrop-Grumman
- David Garrett, Broadcom
- Mircea Gradu, Hyundai
- Zoran Nenadic, UC Irvine
- Naehyuck Chang, KAIST
- Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, Toyota
- Bibhrajit Halder, Faraday Future
- Mainak Biswas, Qualcomm
Venue
The workshop will be held at the Center for Embedded & Cyber-physical Systems (CECS) on the University of California, Irvine campus. A few miles from the Pacific Ocean, UCI is conveniently located a short distance from several well-connected airports (LAX, SNA, LGB, ONT, and SAN). Many visitors to the area rent cars or use shared ride services (Uber, Lyft, etc..) for their transport.
UCI Campus Map
Driving Directions to CECS
- turn right on Jamboree,
- turn left on Campus Dr.,
- turn right on E. Peltason Dr. to purchase a parking pass at the kiosk on E. Peltason Dr. or at the Anteater Parking Structure (APS on the map),
- Please park in the Anteater Parking Structure located at the corner of E. Peltason Dr. and Anteater Dr.,
- The Center for Embedded Computer Systems is located on the 3rd floor of Engineering Hall (#308 on the campus map). The conference will take place in the Harut Barsamian Colloquia Room, 2430 Engineering Hall.
- turn left on Culver,
- turn right on Campus Dr.,
- turn left on E. Peltason Dr. to purchase a parking pass at the kiosk on E. Peltason Dr. or at the Anteater Parking Structure (APS on the map),
- Please park in the Anteater Parking Structure located at the corner of E. Peltason Dr. and Anteater Dr.,
- The Center for Embedded Computer Systems is located on the 3rd floor of Engineering Hall (#308 on the campus map). The conference will take place in the Harut Barsamian Colloquia Room, 2430 Engineering Hall.
Hotels
There are numerous hotels within short distance from Campus, and several have negotiated rates with UCI (see http://www.accounting.uci.edu/travel/resources/hotels.html ). Some of these hotels have shuttle service to the UCI campus as well as to/from the John Wayne/Orange County Airport (SNA). However, please keep in mind that one may sometimes find better rates at popular travel websites.
Preliminary Technical Program
Monday July 25
8:45 - 9:30 Get together Coffee, Welcome
9:30 - 12:00 Morning Session Chair: Fadi Kurdahi, UCI
11:00 - 11:15 Break
12:15 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 4:30 Afternoon Session – Chair: Ulf Schlichtmann, TUM
3:30-4:00 Break
6:00 - 10:00 Social Event (Rusty Pelican, Newport Beach, CA)
Tuesday July 26
8:45 - 9:30 Get together Coffee, Welcome
9:30 - 12:00 Morning Session – Chair: Hidetoshi Onodera, Kyoto Univ.
11:00 - 11:15 Break
12:15 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 4:30 Afternoon Session – Chair: Avesta Sasan, GMU
3:30-4:00 Break
5:00 - 5:30 Discussion -
5:30 - 6:00 Closing
Committee
Organization
- Fadi J. Kurdahi, Center for Embedded and Cyber-physical Systems
- University of California, Irvine
Steering Committee
- Ulf Schlichtmann, Technische Universität München, Germany
- Nikil Dutt, University of California at Irvine, USA
- Joerg Henkel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Sani Nassif, Radyalis, Austin, USA
- Hidetoshi Onodera, Kyoto University, Japan
- David Pan, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Mehdi Tahoori, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany