Secure at First Silicon: Reducing Cost and Risk


Security weaknesses related to side-channel leakage are often discovered far too late in the lifecycle of a chip. Design teams may focus on functionality, performance, and power, assuming that a robust algorithm like AES is enough to guarantee security. Only after first silicon comes back – and an expert lab starts probing power traces or EM emissions – do they realize that sensitive inform... » read more

Information Flow Verification Framework Integrating Static and Formal Verification Methods At The Pre-Silicon Stage (U. of Florida)


Researchers from University of Florida published "IFV: Information Flow Verification at the Pre-silicon Stage Utilizing Static-Formal Methodology." Abstract "Modern system-on-chips (SoCs) are becoming prone to numerous security vulnerabilities due to their ever-growing complexity and size. Therefore, a comprehensive security verification framework is needed at the very early stage of the ... » read more

Pre-Silicon Hardware Trojans: Design, Benchmarking, Detection And Prevention (Sandia Labs)


A new technical paper titled "A Survey on the Design, Detection, and Prevention of Pre-Silicon Hardware Trojans" was published by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories. "In this survey, we first highlight efforts in Trojan design and benchmarking, followed by a cataloging of seminal and recent works in Trojan detection and prevention and their accompanied metrics. Given the volume of l... » read more

Understanding Fault Injection Attacks At The Pre-Silicon Level


A new technical paper titled "CRAFT: Characterizing and Root-Causing Fault Injection Threats at Pre-Silicon" was published by researchers at North Carolina State University. Abstract "Fault injection attacks represent a class of threats that can compromise embedded systems across multiple layers of abstraction, such as system software, instruction set architecture (ISA), microarchitecture, ... » read more