Reliability of advanced technologies and its impact at system level

Advanced technologies bring their own reliability behaviour: ageing mechanisms, variability and transient faults that differ by technology and by operating point. Most of this knowledge stops at the device or the circuit. What a system designer needs is the other end of the chain: how much margin a system loses over its lifetime, how often a fault reaches an output, and which architectural or technological choice buys the most reliability per unit of cost. The student will work on a reliability framework that takes device-level reliability data for advanced technologies, propagates it through circuits and blocks, and expresses it as system-level metrics for representative workloads. The work includes building and calibrating the models across the layers, identifying where the dominant losses arise, and exploring mitigations that combine technology choice and architecture, so that reliability becomes a quantity that can be traded against power, performance and area. Type of internship : Master internship Duration : 6-9 months Required educational background : Electrotechnics/Electrical Engineering Supervising scientist(s) : For further information or for application, please contact Siva Satyendra Sahoo ( SivaSatyendra.Sahoo@imec.be ) The reference code for this position is 2026-INT-359 . Mention this reference code in your application. Imec allowance will be provided for students studying at a non-Belgian university. Applications should include the following information: resume motivation current study Incomplete applications will not be considered