Towards a Framework and a Design Methodology for Autonomic SoC

This paper proposes autonomic or organic computing principles to be applied to hardware design methods for future SoC solutions. Incorporating self-calibration, fault tolerance or even self-healing concepts into integrated circuit systems represents a major conceptual shift, which requires new design processes and tools. In the future, guarantee of functional correctness at the chip level will include self-configuration of adaptable components and flexible interfaces supporting a flexible component composition within complex SoC systems.