VERFE 2016 - 12th Workshop on Dependability and Fault Tolerance

Although the basic reliability of hardware and software components has improved over decades, their increasing number causes severe
problems. Moreover, in recent years it can be observed that in an increasing number of devices, e.g. cars, digital components are
integrated into environments of other physical components. Here, the complexity and number of interactions with these components
creates problems with regard to maintaining a dependable operation of the entire system in case of faults or external disturbances.
While this is not a problem with microprocessors there, shrinking feature sizes, higher complexity, lower voltages, and higher clock
frequencies increase the probability of design-, manufacturing-, and operational faults, making fault tolerance techniques in general
purpose processors to be of crucial importance in the future. As simple solutions (such as TMR) easily can get too expensive, the ability
to trade increased reliability against performance/power overhead will become important, resulting in light-weight fault tolerance
techniques implemented in hardware, but controllable from higher software layers.
This workshop aims at presenting contributions and work-in-progress f