Dependability-aware Embedded System-level Design

More and more embedded systems operate in safety-critical areas and have to cope with destructive agents present at their mounting spaces. As a result, dependability has become an objective of major importance. In this work, an automatic costaware embedded system-level design methodology is presented that contributes a) effective dependability analysis techniques, b) the usage of dependability-increasing methods, and c) the integration of the investigated techniques in a state-of-the-art design space exploration approach. Using a model-based design paradigm, the work at hand is applicable to several embedded domains like, e.g., SoC, MPSoC, networked embedded system, and ECU network design.