Workshop: Bugs and Defects in Electronic Systems: The Next Frontier

该 Dagstuhl 研讨会旨在汇集来自设计验证、形式化方法、高级设计、制造测试、鲁棒系统设计以及集成电路制造背景下相关学科研究领域的科学家。目的是讨论稳健系统及其潜在解决方案的设计、验证和测试中即将面临的主要障碍。现有的投片前验证的可扩展性不够，并且当今的制造测试方法可能不足以筛选边际故障和可靠性故障。影响系统正确性和/或安全性的错误和缺陷必须在系统环境中、硅后验证期间或现场系统操作期间进行检测、定位和纠正。将讨论与当今实践完全不同的新方法，需要跨越传统不同研究领域的多学科努力。本次研讨会的成果预计将通过在学术界和工业研究人员之间建立联系来影响美国半导体行业。出席研讨会的行业专家还将在对该领域研究至关重要的基准测试工作中发挥重要作用。研讨会还将利用技术主题作为评估美国和德国相关科学界联合合作价值的手段，并探讨可由各自资助机构支持的各种合作机制。为此，该研讨会还得到了德国科学基金会（DFG）的共同赞助。

This Dagstuhl workshop is to bring together scientists from the research areas of Design Verification, Formal Methods, High-level Design, Manufacturing Testing, Robust System Design, and related disciplines in the context of integrated circuit manufacturing. The objective is to discuss major upcoming obstacles in the design, verification, and testing of robust systems and their potential solutions. Existing pre-silicon verification is insufficiently scalable, and today's manufacturing test methodologies may not be adequate in screening marginal and reliability failures. Bugs and defects that impact system correctness and/or security must be detected, localized, and corrected in the system environment, during post-silicon validation, or during system operation in the field. New methodologies, that are radical departures from today's practice and require multi-disciplinary effort spanning traditionally distinct research areas are to be discussed.The outcome of this workshop is expected to influence US semiconductor industry by making connections between the academic and industrial researchers. The industry experts present at the workshop will also be instrumental in the benchmarking efforts critical to the research in the field. The workshop will also use the technical topic as a means to assess the value of joint collaborations between the relevant US and German scientific communities and explore various collaboration mechanisms that can be supported by the respective funding agencies. To this end, the workshop is co-sponsored by the German Science Foundation (DFG) as well.