The design of dependable flexible multi-sensory System-on-Chips for security applications

Abstract

A new approach towards highly reconfigurable SoCs for data-streaming multi-sensory systems is presented. As the applications are in the security arena, a very high degree of dependability should be guaranteed. For this purpose, extensive use is made of many-core processor architectures and associated embedded health-monitoring circuits. This enables the preventive (automatic) repair by spare parts or priority ranking of tasks among processors.