Magazine
Volume 38, Issue 1 (January/February)
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Highlights
Special Issue on "Competing to Secure SoCs" |
Tutorial Paper by Brian Crafton, Samuel Spetalnick, Yan Fang, and Arijit Raychowdhury "Merged Logic and Memory Fabrics for Accelerating Machine Learning Workloads" |
General Interest Paper by Seyed Mohammad Ali Zeinolabedin, Johannes Partzsch, and Christian Mayr "Real-time Hardware Implementation of ARM CoreSight Trace Decoder" |
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January/February 2021 Content
From the EIC
Special Issue on Competing to Secure SoCs
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SoC Security Evaluation: Reflections on Methodology and Tooling |
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This article details a methodology to find bugs across multiple abstraction layers of the system, specifically at the hardware-software boundary. The article describes how existing tools can help with such methodology and limitations. read more
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Hardware Penetration Testing Knocks Your SoCs Off |
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This article highlights how software simulations can, on the one hand, help uncover bugs, but on the other hand, help exploit them. read more.
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Hunting Security Bugs in SoC Designs: Lessons Learned |
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This article presents a methodology for finding hardware security bugs, using Lint tools that use static analysis techniques, along with best practices for code reviews and developing test cases. read more.
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Texas A&M Hackin’ Aggies’ Security Verification Strategies for the 2019 Hack@DAC Competition |
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This article details how well functional verification technique can catch security bugs in a resource-constrained setting. read more.
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Tutorial Papers
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Merged Logic and Memory Fabrics for Accelerating Machine Learning Workloads |
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Designing hardware accelerators for machine learning (ML) applications is a well-researched problem. This article presents a tutorial regarding new computing architectures, circuits techniques, and multiple promising device technologies for in-memory computing targeting ML workloads. read more
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General Interest Papers
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Real-time Hardware Implementation of ARM CoreSight Trace Decoder |
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This article proposes a real-time ARM CoreSight trace decoder in hardware for system-on-chip design, analysis, and verification. read more
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Departments
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Report on the 2020 Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK): A Virtual Event during a Pandemic, September 20-25 |
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