The Dependable Computing Group develops robust, secure and fault-tolerant hardware systems for demanding edge and infrastructure applications such as satellite and space communication, 6G networks, autonomous systems, industrial robotics and medical technology.
In these domains, systems must deliver high performance while operating reliably and securely under radiation, aging, environmental stress and potential physical attacks. We therefore design dependability as an intrinsic system property — from circuit level to complete Systems on Chip with specialized accelerators and communication offload engines.
Main Targets
- dependable and secure processor-based SoC platforms
- co-design of fault tolerance, security and performance
- automated “dependability-by-design” system generation
- reliable accelerators for communication, sensing and AI
- open and reusable hardware ecosystems
Research Topics
Architectures & Automation
- adaptive multi-core and heterogeneous SoC architectures with focus on open-source platforms
- resilient interconnects and DPU-style offload subsystems
- generator-based flows with built-in hardening
Fault Tolerance
- redundancy and selective hardening
- radiation/aging mitigation and monitoring
- fault injection and adaptive reconfiguration
Hardware Security
- side-channel and fault-injection resistant crypto hardware
- secure roots of trust and protected data paths
- security-aware RTL and library methodologies
Group Development and Focus
The Dependable Computing Group combines expertise in hardware reliability and physical security across all abstraction levels — from device physics and circuit design to RTL implementation and system architecture. This enables a unified treatment of non-malicious hardware faults and adversarial attack mechanisms.
We develop resilient multi-core and heterogeneous SoC platforms in which hardening strategies, fault tolerance mechanisms and security countermeasures are integrated consistently from technology to architecture.
By aligning circuit-level effects, implementation techniques and architectural design, the group establishes a coherent engineering approach to dependable hardware platforms for advanced communication, sensing and edge computing systems.
