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 includes self configuration of adaptable components and flexible interfaces supporting a flexible component composition within complex SoC systems