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Increased attention to RISC-V in Cloud, Data Center, Automotive and Networking applications, has been fueling the move of RISC-V to the high-performance computing scenario. However, lack of powerful performance monitoring tools will result…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Joao Mario Domingos , Pedro Tomas , Leonel Sousa

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) rely on sensor feedback to keep safety-critical processes within operational limits. This research presents a hardware-root-of-trust that embeds a Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) at the measurement…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ahmed Oun , Rishabh Das , Clay Hess , Aakriti Barat , Savas Kaya

As cloud-based quantum computing expands, securing access to quantum hardware is increasingly critical. We present an authentication protocol that leverages intrinsic quantum device properties to construct Quantum Physical Unclonable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Behnam Tonekaboni , Pranav Gokhale , Kaitlin N. Smith

Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are lightweight cryptographic primitives for generating unique signatures from minuscule manufacturing variations. In this work, we present lightweight, area efficient and low power adaptive multi-bit…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Sudarshan Sharma , Dhruv Thapar , Nikhil Bhelave , Mrigank Sharad

The emergence of a new, open, and free instruction set architecture, RISC-V, has heralded a new era in microprocessor architectures. Starting with low-power, low-performance prototypes, the RISC-V community has a good chance of moving…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Valentin Volokitin , Evgeny Kozinov , Valentina Kustikova , Alexey Liniov , Iosif Meyerov

Security has become a main concern for the smart grid to move from research and development to industry. The concept of security has usually referred to resistance to threats by an active or passive attacker. However, since smart meters…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Masoud Kaveh , Mohammad Reza Mosavi , Diego Martin , Saeed Aghapour

Flexible electronics offer unique advantages for conformable, lightweight, and disposable healthcare wearables. However, their limited gate count, large feature sizes, and high static power consumption make on-body machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Theofanis Vergos , Polykarpos Vergos , Mehdi B. Tahoori , Georgios Zervakis

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are gaining attention in the cryptography community because of the ability to efficiently harness the intrinsic variability in the manufacturing process. However, this means that they are noisy devices…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Xinhui Lai , Maksim Jenihhin , Georgios Selimis , Sven Goossens , Roel Maes , Kolin Paul

We consider a secret key agreement problem in which noisy physical unclonable function (PUF) outputs facilitate reliable, secure, and private key agreement with the help of public, noiseless, and authenticated storage. PUF outputs are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Onur Günlü , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

RISC-V is emerging as a viable platform for automotive-grade embedded computing, with recent ISO 26262 ASIL-D certifications demonstrating readiness for safety-critical deployment in autonomous driving systems. However, functional safety in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nick Andreasyan , Mikhail Struve , Alexey Popov , Maksim Nikolaev , Vadim Vashkelis

Despite decades of efforts to resolve, memory safety violations are still persistent and problematic in modern systems. Various defense mechanisms have been proposed, but their deployment in real systems remains challenging because of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yonghae Kim , Anurag Kar , Jaewon Lee , Jaekyu Lee , Hyesoon Kim

The complexity of automotive systems is increasing quickly due to the integration of novel functionalities such as assisted or autonomous driving. However, increasing complexity poses considerable challenges to the automotive supply chain…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Luca Cuomo , Claudio Scordino , Alessandro Ottaviano , Nils Wistoff , Robert Balas , Luca Benini , Errico Guidieri , Ida Maria Savino

A silicon physically unclonable function (PUF) is considered to be one of the key security system solutions for local devices in an era in which the internet is pervasive. Among many proposals, a PUF using ring oscillators (RO-PUF) has the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Tetsufumi Tanamoto , Shinich Yasuda , Satoshi Takaya , Shinobu Fujita

RISC-V is an emerging technology, with applications ranging from embedded devices to high-performance servers. Therefore, more and more security-critical workloads will be conducted with code that is compiled for RISC-V. Well-known…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Jan Wichelmann , Christopher Peredy , Florian Sieck , Anna Pätschke , Thomas Eisenbarth

In order to protect devices from physical manipulations, protective security enclosures were developed. However, these battery-backed solutions come with a reduced lifetime, and have to be actively and continuously monitored. In order to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Kathrin Garb , Marvin Xhemrishi , Ludwig Kürzinger , Christoph Frisch

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are modern solutions for cheap and secure key storage. The security level strongly depends on a PUF's unpredictability, which is impaired if certain bits of the PUF response tend towards the same value…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Florian Wilde , Michael Pehl

Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) circuits are finding widespread use due to increasing adoption of IoT devices. However, the existing strong PUFs such as Arbiter PUFs (APUF) and its compositions are susceptible to machine learning (ML)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Nimesh Shah , Manaar Alam , Durga Prasad Sahoo , Debdeep Mukhopadhyay , Arindam Basu

As RISC-V architectures proliferate across embedded and high-performance domains, developers face persistent challenges in performance optimization due to fragmented tooling, immature hardware features, and platform-specific defects. This…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Alexander Batashev

Due to the diverse and mobile nature of the deployment environment, smart commodity devices are vulnerable to various attacks which can grant unauthorized access to a rogue device in a large, connected network. Traditional digital…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Md Faizul Bari , Parv Agrawal , Baibhab Chatterjee , Shreyas Sen

Strong physical unclonable function (PUF) is a promising solution for device authentication in resourceconstrained applications but vulnerable to machine learning attacks. In order to resist such attack, many defenses have been proposed in…

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