Increasing reliability is one of the most important design goals for current and future
embedded systems. In this talk, we will put focus on the design phase in which reliability
constitutes one of several competing design objectives. Existing approaches considered the
simultaneous optimization of reliability with other objectives to be too extensive. Hence, they
firstly design a system, secondly analyze the system for reliability and finally exchange critical
parts or introduce redundancy in order to satisfy given reliability constraints or optimize
reliability. Unfortunately, this may lead to suboptimal designs concerning design objectives.
We will present a) a novel approach that considers reliability with all other design objectives
simultaneously, b) an evaluation technique that is able to perform a quantitative analysis in
reasonable time even for real-world applications, and c) experimental results showing the
effectiveness of our approach.