Supervisor: Paul Pop

www.imm.dtu.dk Computers today are getting smaller and cheaper and are almost everywhere in our daily lives: at our homes, in the cars, airplanes and industry – almost all devices we use contains one or more embedded computers. With growing usage of embedded devices the requirements are getting tighter. In this thesis we address safety-critical embedded systems, where not only the correct result, but also satisfying timing requirements of the system is vital even in the presence of faults. The increase in computational speed and circuit density has raised the probabil-ity of having transient faults. Embedded systems that are used in safety-critical applications must be able to tolerate the increasing number of transient faults. If not, they might lead to failures that would have disastrous consequences and potentially endanger human lives and the environment. This thesis addresses design optimisation for fault-tolerant event-triggered em