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DARPA (of US DoD) Award for our Logic Locking Research – Again
DARPA AISS Program funds our research on logic locking. This will be a three year project. We are teaming up with our collaborators from Texas A&M and UT Dallas.
Intel funds our research on secure test interface
Intel funds our three-year project on “Provably-Secure Scan Locking.” In this project, we will be working with Intel to develop on-chip defenses to hide plain test and configuration data from third-party (potentially untrustworthy) testers and yet enable them to test and configure chips.
Unhackable chip covered in the National
Our unhackable chip is featured in an article titled “Unhackable Electronic Chip Being Developed in Abu Dhabi” in The National.
DARPA (of US DoD) Seedling Award for our Logic Locking Research
We won the DARPA seedling grant to further our logic locking research. We are teaming up with UC San Diego, UT Dallas and Texas A&M on this project titled “ECLIPSE: Efficient Cross-Layered IP Protection SchemE.” The project duration is 18 months. Seedling grants are meant to bring projects with potential to a more mature level, so they compete again for the much bigger grant.
First chip resilient to hardware-level threats: Proof-of-concept for logic locking
We received our logic-locked chips from the fab. The chip we designed has ARM microprocessor inside. Some of the controllers are locked via SFLL. For more information, please click here.
Our research in The National
Our research is featured in an article titled “NYU Abu Dhabi Engineers seek to make cities more secure” in The National.
US Army Research Office (Department of Defense) provides $400K funding
US Army Research Office (Department of Defense) provides $400K funding for our research on IC camouflaging. The goal of the project is to develop layout level countermeasures against reverse engineering. The project will develop metrics to guide the insertion of camouflaged cells at the layout level. This a joint project with Prof. Ramesh Karri’s (co-PI) group at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU.
US National Science Foundation provides $500K funding
US National Science Foundation provides $500K funding for our research on secure high-level synthesis. The goal of the project is to develop novel high-level synthesis methodologies that will produce reverse-engineering resilient designs. This a joint project with Prof. Ramesh Karri’s (co-PI) group at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU.
TwinLab on Hardware Security and Trust has been launched with the support of GLOBALFOUNDRIES on a $2.6M budget
TwinLab on Hardware Security and Trust has been launched with the support of GLOBALFOUNDRIES on a $2.6M budget. The TwinLab consists of DfX and MOMA lab personnel in addition to a senior IC designer, who will be a CSS-AD personnel. The goal of the TwinLab is to design and fabricate the first truly trustworthy microrprocessor chip in close collaboration with GLOBALFOUNDRIES.
SRC/Mubadala Technology provides $463K funding
SRC/Mubadala Technology provides $463K funding for our project on “Security and Test Implications of NEMS” in the MEES III call. Semiconductor Research Corporation channels the funding provided by UAE’s Mubadala Technology to local universities in the UAE.