Embedded reliable HPC Integration enabling smart Automotive & IoT Systems

The field of reliable embedded electronic HPC systems, incl. heterogenous multi-core (MC), accelerator and cyber-physical systems (CPS) integration, is emerging, essential and challenging for actual and future silicon technologies. Here, on one side increasing monolythic integration of cooperating computational and physical elements is necessary, e. g. in embedded and smart on-demand automatized environments as diverse as space, avionics, automotive, chemical processes, civil infrastructure, energy, healthcare, manufacturing (Industry 4.0), transportation, entertainment, and communication/consumer appliances. Moreover, future complex dynamically adaptive and multi-domain electronic system integration tends to be more and more dependent on distributed real-time and embedded High-Performance Computing (HPC) availability. This results in the strong demand of newly operating decentralized/centralized intelligent, interconnected, and silicon-based technology integrated solutions, subject to increased performance needs to facilitate computationally intensive algorithms, power consumption to be minimized for mobile devices, and sufficient degrees of reliability and verifiability to employ digital systems in safety-critical environments. Existing technology must evolve in order to meet such high requirements, whereas open source hardware and artificial intelligence (AI) could also play key roles in this process. Multipurpose adaptivity and reliability are crucial, especially in scaling down silicon technologies according to Moore for future processor technologies incl. dynamically reconfigurable accelerators and embedded HPC architectures. This requires in addition new approaches for parallel programming, reference technology platforms (RTP) and correct design and deployment methodologies incl. standardized tool flows. The contribution will discuss challenges of high-end heterogenous multi-core/accelerator HPC platforms incl. their reliable SoC hardware/software integration, e. g., smart scalable & embedded Automotive & IoT systems towards future automatizable environments like autonomous driving, drones and robotics scenarios etc.