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Alpha-particles and cosmic rays cause bit flips in chips. Protection circuits ease the problem, but cost chip area and power, and so designers try hard to optimize them. This leads to bugs: an undetected fault can bring miscalculations, the…
While numerous obfuscation techniques are available for securing digital assets in the digital domain, there has been a notable lack of focus on protecting Intellectual Property (IP) in the analog domain. This is primarily due to the…
Energy consumption of IoT devices is a very important issue. For this reason, many techniques have been developed to allow IoT nodes to be aware of the amount of available energy. When energy is missing, the device halts and saves its…
Spin-orbit coupling (SOC), the core of numerous condensed-matter phenomena such as nontrivial band gap, magnetocrystalline anisotropy, etc, is generally considered to be appreciable only in heavy elements, detrimental to the synthetization…
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Numerous threats are associated with the globalized integrated circuit (IC) supply chain, such as piracy, reverse engineering, overproduction, and malicious logic insertion. Many obfuscation approaches have been proposed to mitigate these…
As the Internet of Things (IOT) is growing rapidly, there is an emerging need to facilitate development of IOT devices in the design cycle while optimized performance is obtained in the field of operation. This paper develops…
Physical instantiations of a bit of information are subject to thermal noise that can trigger unintended bit-flip errors. Bits implemented with CMOS technology typically operate in regimes that reliably suppress these errors with a large…
This letter introduces the NOnSmooth Numerical Optimal Control (NOSNOC) open-source software package. It is a modular MATLAB tool based on CasADi and IPOPT for numerically solving Optimal Control Problems (OCP) with piecewise smooth systems…
Single electron Sensitive Read Out (SiSeRO) is a novel on-chip charge detection technology that can, in principle, provide significantly greater responsivity and improved noise performance than traditional charge coupled device (CCD)…
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This paper presents a system-level analytical framework for modeling and minimizing phase noise in body-biased cross-coupled LC-tank voltage-controlled oscillators (LC-VCOs). Building upon Impulse Sensitivity Function (ISF) theory, the…
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With the advancement of technology in the last few decades, leading to the widespread availability of miniaturized sensors and internet-connected things (IoT), security of electronic devices has become a top priority. Side-channel attack…
Post-Quantum Cryptographic (PQC) algorithms are mathematically secure and resistant to quantum attacks but can still leak sensitive information in hardware implementations due to natural faults or intentional fault injections. The intent…
This paper introduces on-chip integrated rotary traveling wave oscillators (RTWOs) organized into rotary oscillator array (ROA) bricks as an external perturbation to induce subharmonic injection locking (SHIL) in oscillator-based Ising…
The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) has raised increasing concern about targeted cyber attacks. Previous research primarily focused on static Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs), which employ offline training to safeguard IoT…
Quantum error correction (QEC) is essential for quantum computing to mitigate the effect of errors on qubits, and surface code (SC) is one of the most promising QEC methods. Decoding SCs is the most computational expensive task in the…
Impedance models are widely used in assessing small signal stability of grid-tied voltage source converter (VSC) systems. Recent research has proven that impedance models of grid-tied VSC in both dq and sequence domains are generally…
The performance of on-chip communication in the state-of-the-art multi-core processors that use the traditional electron-ic NoCs has already become severely energy-constrained. To that end, emerging photonic NoCs (PNoC) are seen as a…