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IoT Growing Pains
By Ed Sperling - 04 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

The Internet of Things is having one of those defining moments — and not in a good way. Only a limited number of things will work together at first. Only in rare case will they actually cross boundaries between vertical markets such as consumer or home, automotive and medical. And in no cases will there be any guarantees, at least in the short term, that communications will be reliable, secur... » read more

The Simple Way To Steal Data
By Ernest Worthman - 04 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

Given all the propaganda that is currently floating around about what the IoT/E, CoT is or isn’t, will or won’t be, one thing is for sure – it will be flooded with autonomous objects, most of which most will be cheap, simple, and, as it stands now, unsecured. And, given the equation that: a) side channel attacks are relatively easy, and b) that many of the chips of IoT/E, CoT objects a... » read more

Quantum Cryptography: A Magic Bullet For The IoT?
By Ernest Worthman - 04 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

Quantum cryptography (QC for this discussion) theory—and it is still just theory—is potentially a very powerful security process that could be implemented for the dissemination of information over communications channels, using the principles of quantum mechanics. This is particularly intriguing because it is impossible to measure a photon, the fundamental element in the creation of QC secu... » read more

End-To-End Security
By Craig Rawlings - 04 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 1

As the things we use every day get both connected and smarter, the sensitivity and potential damage caused by breaches in security becomes larger. With the new generation of connectedness, we saw a 368% rise in exposed identities last year over the year prior with 552 million leaked identities in 2013, according to the 2014 Internet Security Threat Report. Weak security is such an issue that... » read more

The Week In Review: Design
By Ed Sperling - 08 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 0

Tools Cadence rolled out a custom power integrity tool for dealing with transistor-level electromigration and IR drop with SPICE-level accuracy. It works in conjunction with the company’s existing power integrity tool for cell-level power signoff. Open-Silicon established a high-speed SerDes technology center of excellence to speed design and production of ASICs using high-speed serial co... » read more

Chip Security Features Abound…But Are They Enough?
By Ann Mutschler - 04 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 0

There are a number of security features to protect devices today from attack that SoC design team can include, some of which extract only a small cost to the power and performance. A few of these include the following, according to Bernard Murphy, CTO at Atrenta: --Secure boot, which is a very common thing in embedded systems now in which there are trusted execution environments (TEE) to... » read more

What Can You Trust In The IoT?
By Ernest Worthman - 04 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 0

Most of us on the bleeding edge of technology are aware that the Internet of Things/Everything and the Cloud of Things (IoT/E), (CoT), are slowly becoming less fuzzy. No one knows exactly what the model ultimately will look like, but it is becoming clearer and clearer that it won’t be radically different than the Internet we have today—just more objects, more interconnects, more autonomy, a... » read more

Designing For Security
By Ann Mutschler - 04 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 0

Some level of security is required in SoC today, whether it is in hardware, software or — most commonly — both. Of course, there is a price to pay from a power and performance perspective, but thankfully just a small one in most cases. The explosion of consumer devices has driven the need for increased security features in smart cards, smart phones, personal computers, home networks, and... » read more

Why Every Chip Can Be Hacked With This Tool
By Ernest Worthman - 04 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 0

As explained by Darth Vader in the classic Star Wars saga, the line between good and evil can be very thin. What is sometimes developed for the benefit technology, in the hands of the wrong people, can be devastating. That may seem a bit melodramatic when it comes to discussions around focused ion beam (FIB) applications in semiconductors, but the analogy is quite real. Focused ion beam tec... » read more

Defending Against Reverse Engineering
By Ernest Worthman - 04 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 0

Most of us are familiar with the term “reverse engineering.” We generally know that it is used to extract data or designs from chips, but exactly how is pretty much a mystery. Today, chip security has very broad implications. The landscape of tomorrow will be cluttered with devices that are microprocessor-controlled, including some that are autonomous. Numbers vary, but the current esti... » read more

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