ECE 6770 - [Resilient Computer Systems]

Offered on demand. Not offered: 2023-2024. Next offered: 2024-2025. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: ECE 4750.

E. Suh.

This course discusses principles and practices of designing secure and reliable computing systems, especially in the context of mobile System-on-Chips (SoCs). The course first introduces key concepts in reliability and security such as sources of faults and their manifestation, information redundancy, fault-tolerant hardware and software approaches, security properties, and cryptography. Then, the course uses modern SoCs for smartphones as a platform to discuss practical issues and techniques.