Ensuring Correctness of Next Generation Devices: From Reconfigurable to Self-Learning Systems

Abstract

Nowadays electronic systems are small yet powerful and embedded into their environment. They are adapting to changes and often operate autonomously. These systems have reached a level of complexity that opens up new application areas, like autonomous driving or self-learning robotics, but at the same time strains the existing design flows in system development. For two concrete examples we show the importance of ensuring the correctness: verification of robotic plans, and verified partial reconfiguration as part of a reconfiguration-based countermeasure against side-channel attacks.