Social Information Infrastructure and Dependable VLSI

摘要

Our daily lives heavily depends on the social information infrastructure, which includes a huge numbers of VLSI chips. Various system failures are caused by physical faults in the circuits, human errors in design/fabrication/operation and malicious attacks. In this talk, the causes and countermeasures of these failures of VLSI systems are summarized. The discussion leads a new direction of researches of design technology of dependable VLSI systems for social information infrastructures. As an example of social information systems, e-money systems are discussed in detail.