Arnaud Grasset
Thales Research & Tech., France
A Look at Computer Architectures for Mission-Critical Embedded Systems
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Application-specific or domain-specific computer architectures have been used in the past to meet the specific and tight requirements of mission-critical systems. During the last decades, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components have however progressively been used in most of these systems for cost and performance reasons. With the advent of artificial intelligence and the increasing connectivity of these systems, new solutions are investigated to meet the evolving requirements of embedded systems. The cybersecurity becomes more and more important and has to be achieved in coordination with the others dimensions of dependability (i.e. reliability, safety…). The dependability is a key non-functional requirement that will have to be guaranteed even for emerging computation-intensive application (like artificial intelligence applications). This talk will discuss of the opportunity for innovation and challenges brought by the evolution of mission-critical applications. The need of high-performance and low-cost computing solutions is still a strong driver for the use of COTS components. But specific requirements in term of reliability and security push towards domain-specific solutions. And the development of open-source hardware opens the way to new opportunities.
Biography
Arnaud Grasset is a senior research engineer at Thales Research & Technology. He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de Lyon, France, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, in 2006. He joined Thales Research & Technology, in 2006, where he worked in the areas of dependability and fault-tolerant computing. His research interests include IC reliability and fault tolerant computing, multi-core processors for real-time embedded systems, HW accelerators, dynamically reconfigurable architectures, and system-level design of MPSoCs.