Innovation Practices Track: Silicon Telemetry for Dependability

Throughout the life cycle of silicon-based system deployment, there may be a service failure induced by external or internal effects (e.g., silicon failure). Dependability of a system is a term to define the ability that the system can avoid such service failure beyond an acceptance level. There is a broad spectrum of attributes of dependability, including reliability, maintainability and safety. Silicon telemetry is a key technique to gain insights of silicon and system in field, and it opens a door to a promising solution space for dependability improvement.