Issues related to Online testing techniques, and more generally to design for robustness, are increasingly important in modern electronic systems. In particular, the huge complexity of electronic systems has led to growth in reliability needs in several application domains and pressure for low-cost products. There is a corresponding increasing demand for cost-effective design for robustness techniques. These needs have increased dramatically with the introduction of nanometer technologies, which impact adversely noise margins; process, voltage, and temperature variations; aging and wear-out; soft error and EMI sensitivity; power density and heating; and make mandatory the use of design for robustness techniques for extending, yield, reliability, and lifetime of modern SoCs.

Design for reliability becomes also mandatory for reducing power dissipation, as voltage reduction, often used to reduce power, strongly affects reliability by reducing noise margins and thus the sensitivity to soft errors and EMI, and by increasing circuit delays and thus the severity of timing faults. There is also a strong relation between Design for Reliability and Design for Security, as security attacks are often fault-based.

The International Symposium on On-Line Testing and Robust System Design (IOLTS) is an established forum for presenting novel ideas and experimental data on these areas. The Symposium is sponsored by the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) and by the IEEE Computer Society Test Technology Technical Community (TTTC). The 2024 edition is organized by the Inria Centre at Rennes University and University of Rennes.

General Chairs:

Marcello Traiola
Inria centre at Rennes University, France
(marcello.traiola@inria.fr)

Angeliki Kritikakou
University of Rennes, France
(angeliki.kritikakou@irisa.fr)

Program Chairs:

Alessandro Savino
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
(alessandro.savino@polito.it)

Michail Maniatakos
NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
(mm6446@nyu.edu)