Dependable embedded systems special day panel: issues and challenges in dependable embedded systems

Embedded Systems are pervasively appearing in virtually all walks of life - communication, computing, e-/m-commerce, leisure, medical, WSN, transportation, biometrics. The utility of these embedded systems and services is based, in large part, in our depending on their sustained functionality in spite of the encountered operational or malicious disruptions. As the number of transient and also permanent disruptions (given the decreasing device geometries, higher device density, lower voltage latching, faster clocks etc) is expected to increase substantially, this will not only be a key issue for the hardware community but also the systems community in general. Solutions using a combination of hardware and software might be more effective than hardware-only or software-only solutions.