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Side-channel attacks allow extracting secret information from the execution of cryptographic primitives by correlating the partially known computed data and the measured side-channel signal. However, to set up a successful side-channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Giuseppe Chiari , Davide Galli , Francesco Lattari , Matteo Matteucci , Davide Zoni

High-speed interconnects, such as NVLink, are integral to modern multi-GPU systems, acting as a vital link between CPUs and GPUs. This study highlights the vulnerability of multi-GPU systems to covert and side channel attacks due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Yicheng Zhang , Ravan Nazaraliyev , Sankha Baran Dutta , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh , Andres Marquez , Kevin Barker

Side-channel attacks are important security challenges as they reveal sensitive information about on-chip activities. Among such attacks, the thermal side-channel has been shown to disclose the activities of key functional blocks and even…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Dylan Stow , Russell Barnes , Eren Kurshan , Yuan Xie

A chiplet is an integrated circuit that encompasses a well-defined subset of an overall system's functionality. In contrast to traditional monolithic system-on-chips (SoCs), chiplet-based architecture can reduce costs and increase…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Shixin Chen , Shanyi Li , Zhen Zhuang , Su Zheng , Zheng Liang , Tsung-Yi Ho , Bei Yu , Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

As industry moves toward chiplet-based designs, the insertion of hardware Trojans poses a significant threat to the security of these systems. These systems rely heavily on cache coherence for coherent data communication, making coherence…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Gino A. Chacon , Charles Williams , Johann Knechtel , Ozgur Sinanoglu , Paul V. Gratz

With the increasing prevalence of chiplet systems in high-performance computing applications, the number of design options has increased dramatically. Instead of chips defaulting to a single die design, now there are options for 2.5D and 3D…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Alexander Graening , Jonti Talukdar , Saptadeep Pal , Krishnendu Chakrabarty , Puneet Gupta

To meet the ever-growing need for performance in silicon devices, SoC providers have been increasingly relying on software-hardware cooperation. By controlling hardware resources such as power or clock management from the software,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Joseph Gravellier , Jean-Max Dutertre , Yannick Teglia , Philippe Loubet Moundi

Leveraging 2.5D interposer technology, we advocate the integration of untrusted commodity components/chiplets with physically separate, entrusted logic components. Such organization provides a modern root of trust for secure system-level…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Mohammed Nabeel , Mohammed Ashraf , Satwik Patnaik , Vassos Soteriou , Ozgur Sinanoglu , Johann Knechtel

We present a kernel-level infrastructure that allows system-wide detection of malicious applications attempting to exploit cache-based side-channel attacks to break the process confinement enforced by standard operating systems. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Stefano Carnà , Serena Ferracci , Francesco Quaglia , Alessandro Pellegrini

Using a multi-layered printed circuit board, we propose a 3D architecture suitable for packaging supercon- ducting chips, especially chips that contain two-dimensional qubit arrays. In our proposed architecture, the center strips of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-12 Qiang Liu , Mengmeng Li , Kunzhe Dai , Ke Zhang , Guangming Xue , Xinsheng Tan , Haifeng Yu , Yang Yu

Deep learning is an effective approach for performing radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting, which aims to identify the transmitter corresponding to received RF signals. However, beyond the intended receiver, malicious eavesdroppers can also…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-07 Andrew Yuan , Rajeev Sahay

2.5D integration is an important technique to tackle the growing cost of manufacturing chips in advanced technology nodes. This poses the challenge of providing high-performance inter-chiplet interconnects (ICIs). As the number of chiplets…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Patrick Iff , Maciej Besta , Matheus Cavalcante , Tim Fischer , Luca Benini , Torsten Hoefler

Embedded systems are parts of our daily life and used in many fields. They can be found in smartphones or in modern cars including GPS, light/rain sensors and other electronic assistance mechanisms. These systems may handle sensitive data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Pascal Cotret , Guy Gogniat , Martha Johanna Sepulveda Florez

Network slicing in 5G and the future 6G networks will enable the creation of multiple virtualized networks on a shared physical infrastructure. This innovative approach enables the provision of tailored networks to accommodate specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Wei Shao , Chandra Thapa , Rayne Holland , Sarah Ali Siddiqui , Seyit Camtepe

2.5D integration technology is gaining traction as it copes with the exponentially growing design cost of modern integrated circuits. A crucial part of a 2.5D stacked chip is a low-latency and high-throughput inter-chiplet interconnect…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Patrick Iff , Benigna Bruggmann , Maciej Besta , Luca Benini , Torsten Hoefler

Side-channel attacks try to extract secret information from a system by analyzing different side-channel signatures, such as power consumption, electromagnetic emanation, thermal dissipation, acoustics, time, etc. Power-based side-channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Sahan Sanjaya , Aruna Jayasena , Prabhat Mishra

By moving from massive antennas to antenna surfaces for software-defined wireless systems, the reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) rely on arrays of unit cells to control the scattering and reflection profiles of signals, mitigating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Brian Kim , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Sennur Ulukus

Transferable adversarial attack is always in the spotlight since deep learning models have been demonstrated to be vulnerable to adversarial samples. However, existing physical attack methods do not pay enough attention on transferability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Yu Zhang , Zhiqiang Gong , Yichuang Zhang , YongQian Li , Kangcheng Bin , Jiahao Qi , Wei Xue , Ping Zhong

Side Channel Analysis (SCA) presents a clear threat to privacy and security in modern computing systems. The vast majority of communications are secured through cryptographic algorithms. These algorithms are often provably-secure from a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Max Panoff , Honggang Yu , Haoqi Shan , Yier Jin

By interconnecting smaller chiplets through an interposer, 2.5D integration offers a cost-effective and high-yield solution to implement large-scale modular systems. Nevertheless, the underlying network is prone to deadlock, despite…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Ebadollah Taheri , Sudeep Pasricha , Mahdi Nikdast