This book describes the state-of-the art of industrial and academic research in the architectural design of heterogeneous, multi/many-core processors. The authors describe methods and tools to enable next-generation embedded and high-performance heterogeneous processors to confront cost-effectively the inevitable variations by providing Dependable-Performance: correct functionality and timing guarantees throughout the expected lifetime of a platform under thermal, power, and energy constraints. Various aspects of the reliability problem are discussed, at both the circuit and architecture level, the intelligent selection of knobs and monitors in multicore platforms, and systematic design methodologies. The authors demonstrate how new techniques have been applied in real case studies from different applications domain and report on results and conclusions of those experiments.

Introduction.- Multi-Many core Systems.- Reliability Issues.- HARPA Multi-layer METHODOLOGY: HARPA OS + HARPA RTE.- Reliability and mitigation strategies in HARPA: Modeling.- Reliability and mitigation strategies in HARPA: Mitigation.- Knobs/Monitors.- Event-based Thermal Control.- Power aware design of On-chip communication.- OS -Based Management.- Sensing application.- FLOREON application.- Landslide application.- Conclusions.