Friday, April 12, 2024
10:20 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. (CST)
ETB 1020
Jennifer Dworak
Professor @ Southern Methodist University, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Title: “Keeping Customers Happy (and Safe)! Designing Circuits to Enhance Defect Detection and Avoid Errors and Silent Data Corruption“
Abstract
The impact of failing integrated circuits (ICs) can vary from an annoyance to a catastrophic failure. Errors in circuit operation may arise due to defects that are present when a circuit is manufactured, latent defects that develop further over time and cause failures early in a circuit’s lifetime, and defects that arise later in the circuit’s lifetime due to aging. Unfortunately, companies such as Meta have recently found that errors arising from hardware defects are occurring in the field at much higher rates than expected. New ways of testing and monitoring circuits efficiently and effectively are required.
Biography
Jennifer Dworak is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Southern Methodist University. Her research interests include manufacturing test, hardware security, and the reliability of digital circuits and systems. She is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and a 2012 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award funded by Oak Ridge Associated Universities. She is a co-author on multiple technical articles, including two papers that won Best Paper Awards from the VLSI Test Symposium and a paper that won a TTTC Naveena Nagi Award. Prof. Dworak also holds two patents on cybersecurity locks, keys, traps and honeypots and one patent on a laser-powered device for enhanced security. She has given over 30 invited talks and been an invited panelist at multiple technical meetings in several countries. Most recently, she has co-led the effort that led to the Texoma Semiconductor Tech Hub, a consortium of 52 organizations led by SMU, being designated as an official EDA Tech Hub. Prof. Dworak holds PhD, MS, and BS degrees in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University in College Station, TX, USA.
For more on Dr. Dworak please see her SMU Website at https://www.smu.edu/lyle/departments/ece/people/faculty-and-staff/jennifer-dworak
Please join on Friday, 4/12/24 at 10:20 a.m. in ETB 1020.