Hardware Security

Catalog description

This course will provide a broad overview of topics related to hardware security. Upon completing the course, the students are expected to understand the vulnerabilities in current digital system design flow and the physical attacks to these systems; to learn that security starts from hardware design and to be aware of the tools and skills available for building secure and trusted hardware. This course will cover key research topics such as design of basic and advanced cryptographic engines, basic and advanced attacks on computer hardware, secure hardware architectures and post-Silicon computing technologies and their security challenges and opportunities. Introductory lectures will cover basic background on cryptography, authentication, secret sharing, VLSI design, test and verification.