Register your interest for the below workshop here, this event is STFC supported and there are no registration fees. For further details contact Paolo Rech or Chris Frost.
With the imminent introduction of self driving cars in the global market questions regarding the reliability of component and systems arise This short (2-day) workshop aim at putting together experts from academia, automotive vendors, and chip designers working from transistor-level to system and application-level reliability Our goal is to stimulate the discussion and create a network to evaluate the reliability issue and find novel solution to mitigate faults effects in automotive applications.
Speakers so far (full list at the bottom of page)
- Robert Baumann (Texas Instruments)
- Sudhanva Gurumurthi (AMD)
- Richard Bramley (NVIDIA)
- Riccardo Mariani (Intel)
- Chris Frost/Carlo Cazzaniga (ChipIr - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
- Paolo Rech (Associate Professor at Fereral University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
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| Topics Covered
- Basic Mechanisms (neutron-silicon interaction, interferences, perturbation)
- Standards and Measurements (ISO, FIT, beam and fault-injection, errors criticality)
- Accelerators (GPU, FPGA, ....)
- Applications (neural networks, image processing, decision making)
- Components (power transistors, sensors)
- Hardening Solutions (HW/SW replicas, checkpoint, detection, transistor hardening)
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Also taking place
Tour of ChipIr at ISIS - there will be an opportunity to visit the new ChipIr neutron radiation facility at the ISIS Neutron and Muon source during the workshop. Students forum - students have the chance to present their work and have feedback from experts in the reliability research field Round table - a round table will be organized to discuss possible collaborations and how to avance the knowledge on reliability for self-driving cars. | 
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| The local area Out and about - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is only a short travel time from the town of Abingdon and the historic university city of Oxford and within easy reach of some of Britain's major attractions.Accommodation- we have arranged accommodation on a first come basis for the workshop at Ridgeway House which is on the Harwell Campus next to the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Getting here - instruction on getting the Laboratory and the ISIS Neutron and Muon facility can be found here. |
Speakers and talk titles
Alex Hands
| Surrey Space Centre
| Single Event Effects in Ground Level Infrastructure |
Riccardo Mariani
| Intel
| Autonomous Vehicles – Functional Safety and Beyond
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Sudhanva Gurumurthi
| AMD
| Reliability-Aware Design – Principles and Implications for Automotive
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Dan Alexandrescu
| IROC Technologies
| Impact of Standards on Reliability Efforts: Collaborative Reliability Management and EDA Support |
Richard Bramley | NVIDIA
| Functional Safety by Construction |
Stratis Kanarachos | coventry | Automated Vehicles: What, When and How |
Giulio Gambardella | Xilinx | Low-latency inference of Quantized Neural Networks on Xilinx SoC |
Paolo Rech | UFRGS | Reliability evaluation of complex hardware and complex software |
Christopher Frost | STFC | ChipIR facility
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Boyang Du
| Politecnico di Torino
| On the functional test of the GPGPU scheduler
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Students |
Fernando Fernandes | UFRGS | Building reliable Deep Neural Networks for automotive applications: Challenges and possibilities |
Fabiano Libano | UFRGS
| Reliability Analysis of Neural Networks in FPGAs |
Caio Lunardi | UFRGS | On the Effects of Half-Precision Acceleration on GPU Reliability |
Gabriel Piscoya | UFRGS | Workload Distribution in heterogeneous devices to improve efficiency and reliability of applications
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