Rolf Ernst

TU Braunschweig, Germany

Worst-case design revisited

Abstract

Classical worst-case design, as applied to high assurance and safety critical systems, is challenged by increasing dynamics and variability in both computation and communication. Such challenges enforce overly conservative worst-case designs, where high performance would be needed. New worst-case design methods, models and tools are needed to exploit the available platform performance without compromising required guarantees. The talk gives a short overview of our ongoing work with examples from avionics and automotive design.

Biography

Dr. Rolf Ernst is a professor emeritus at the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany. He received a BSc, MSc in CS and a Ph.D. in EE from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. After 2 years at Bell Labs in Allentown, PA, he joined the TU Braunschweig, Institute of Computer and Network Engineering (IDA). His interests cover aspects of design and architecture of embedded and cyber-physical systems, with a focus on real-time and safety-critical systems. He is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering, acatech. He received the EDAA Achievement Award 2014.