Abbrevation
SELSE
City
Boston
Country
United States
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Abstract

The growing complexity and shrinking geometries of modern manufacturing technologies are making high&#8211;density, low&#8211;voltage devices increasingly susceptible to the influences of electrical noise, process variation, transistor aging, and the effects of natural radiation&#046; The system&#8211;level impact of these errors can be far&#8211;reaching&#046; Growing concern about intermittent errors, unstable storage cells, and the effects of aging are influencing system design and failures in memories account for a significant fraction of costly product returns&#046; Emerging logic and memory device technologies introduce several reliability challenges that need to be addressed to make these technologies viable&#046; Finally, reliability is a key issue for large&#8211;scale systems, such as those in data centers&#046; The SELSE workshop provides a forum for discussion of current research and practice in system&#8211;level error management&#046; Participants from industry and academia explore both current technologies and future research directions (including nanotechnology)&#046; SELSE is soliciting papers that address the system&#8211;level effects of errors from a variety of perspectives: architectural, logical, circuit&#8211;level, and semiconductor processes&#046; Case studies are also solicited&#046;<br>Key areas of interest are (but not limited to):<br>Technology trends and the impact on error rates&#046;<br>New error mitigation techniques&#046;<br>Characterizing the overhead and design complexity of error mitigation techniques&#046;<br>Case studies describing the tradeoffs analysis for reliable systems&#046;<br>Experimental silicon failure data&#046;<br>System&#8211;level models: derating factors and validation of error models&#046;<br>Error handling protocols (higher&#8211;level protocols for robust system design)&#046;<br>Characterization of reliability of systems deployed in the field and mitigation of issues&#046;<br>