Ich versichere hiermit wahrheitsgemäß, die Dissertation bis auf die dort angegebenen Hilfen selbstständig angefertigt, alle benutzten Hilfsmittel vollständig und genau angegeben und als kenntlich gemacht zu haben, was aus Arbeiten anderer und eigenen Veröffentlichungen unverändert oder mitÄnderungen entnommen wurde. Karlsruhe, 05.03.2015 Abdulazim Amouri My cordial gratitude is presented to my advisor Prof. Dr. Mehdi Tahoori, this great person from whom I learned a lot, who guided me through my

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... research and give me the flexibility to try and discover, who unleashed my creativity to deal with the most challenging tasks. This great person, who kept a high level of patience in spite of all my nonsense ... I'm very thankful. I'm also grateful to my co-advisor Prof. Dr. Pascal Benoit and his assistant Dr. Florent Bruguier for the nice and fruitful collaboration and for their warm welcome during my visit to Montpellier. Furthermore, my special thanks to Prof. Dr. Jörg Henkel and his assistants Mr. Hussam Amrouch and Dr. Thomas Ebi for the fruitful collaboration. I would like to present my heartfelt thanks to all of my colleagues and project partners at the Chair of Dependable Nano Computing (CDNC) for the nice period I spent between them and the family atmosphere they have created at our chair and also for all their valuable feedback and discussions. In particular I want to thank (in alphabetical order):