Securing AI at the Silicon Level: Solutions for a Smarter, Safer Future


This white paper explains how Synopsys Security IP embeds hardware‑rooted protection into AI SoCs and chiplets to secure their data and models. It highlights growing AI attack vectors across edge and data‑center environments and shows how technologies like PUF, tRoot HSM, interface security, and PQC create long‑term, silicon‑level trust. Why read this whitepaper: Learn how sili... » read more

Developing A Security Framework For Chiplet-Based Systems


In a previous blog, From Monolithic SoCs to Chiplets: A New Hardware Security Paradigm, we discussed why chiplets change the game from a security perspective, and why security must be addressed at a platform-level in a chiplet-based system. In a monolithic SoC, device identity is often anchored in a single root of trust that owns key material and policy. In a chiplet platform, every security... » read more

Building Trust At The Silicon Level: Secure Storage Solution For OTP IP


As semiconductor designs advance into cutting-edge nodes, the complexity of integrated IP blocks from diverse sources is expanding the attack surface. Traditional software-only security measures are increasingly inadequate, as attackers exploit vulnerabilities beneath the software layer. To counter these risks, designers of AI accelerators, automotive domain controllers, aerospace systems, a... » read more

SRAM PUF: A Revolutionary Approach to Cryptographic Key Protection


Cryptographic keys are the cornerstone of secure digital systems, enabling encryption, authentication, and data integrity. However, securely storing these keys on-chip presents significant challenges. Traditional methods, such as storing keys in one-time programmable, non-volatile memory, are vulnerable to physical attacks, environmental variations, and lifecycle management issues. Physical Unc... » read more

PUFs In A Post-Quantum World


With the looming threat of quantum computing on the horizon, the security landscape is changing. Explore the emerging threat and its implications for current cryptographic standards. This white paper provides an in-depth analysis of quantum computing's impact on security and explains how PUF technology can help you maintain robust security in the quantum era. Why Read This? Quantum Comp... » read more

Research Bits: July 7


3D NAND PUF Researchers from Seoul National University developed a new hardware security technology based on commercially available 3D NAND flash memory. The approach is an adaptation of physical unclonable functions (PUFs) with the ability to hide a security key under user data when not in use and reveal it only when needed. The same memory space used for storing security keys can be repurpos... » read more

SRAM PUF – The Secure Silicon Fingerprint


For many years, silicon Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have been seen as a promising and innovative security technology making steady progress. Today, Static Random-Access Memory (SRAM)-based PUFs have been deployed in hundreds of millions of devices and offer a mature and viable security component that is achieving widespread adoption in commercial products. They are found in devices ran... » read more

Democratizing Roots of Trust from Silicon to Software


With a vast amount of devices getting connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) and the growing number of low-cost attacks being developed to hack such IoT devices, it is clear that the need for embedded security solutions is rising dramatically. A security subsystem in the main system-on-chip (SoC) of a device can be deployed to offer secure cryptographic services to the applications running o... » read more

Research Bits: Oct. 29


Micro-LED DUV maskless lithography Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui GaN Semiconductor, and Wuhan University developed a vertically integrated micro-LED array for deep ultraviolet (DUV) maskless photolithography. The team fabricated a DUV display integrated chip with 564 pixels-per-inch density that uses a three-dimensional vertically integrated devic... » read more

Research Bits: July 22


Sub-1nm gate Researchers from Korea's Institute for Basic Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Harvard University, and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) found a method that enables epitaxial growth of 1D metallic materials with a width of less than 1 nm, which they used as a gate electrode of a miniaturized transistor. The team controlled the crystal structure of molyb... » read more

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