Title:

May the Dependability Be with You: Reliability and Resilience Challenges in SoC Design

Abstract:

The automotive and data center industries are experiencing a surge in the quantity and complexity of semiconductor content. Along with traditional performance, power, and area objectives, these markets also require dependability, which includes functional safety, reliability, and availability. Therefore, semiconductors for these applications must be both reliable, reducing their likelihood of failure, and resilient, improving their ability to recover from failure. This presentation reviews some of the challenges associated with achieving these objectives and explores how automation and standardization can play a vital role in meeting these new requirements.

Speaker: Alessandra Nardi PhD

Alessandra Nardi, PhD, is an Executive Director leading the Advanced Platforms Solutions in the System Solutions Group in Synopsys. She is responsible for a cross-functional team driving development and adoption of EDA solutions for functional safety, security and reliability.

After her postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley, she held various R&D lead positions at Magma Design Automation, Synopsys and Cadence spanning statistical static timing analysis, library characterization, power integrity, functional safety and reliability.

Alessandra is active in the scientific community as a member of Technical Program Committees, has written numerous papers, and holds several patents. She is also focusing on standardization activities as the chair of the Accellera Functional Safety Working Group.

Alessandra holds a MS and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy.