CSME's annual summit at Purdue to bolster semiconductor security

Semiconductor chips require a level of security that protects them in everything from automobiles and cellphones to artificial intelligence and machine learning.

The Center for Secure Microelectronics Ecosystem (CSME) at Purdue is tackling these challenges by working to develop advances to protect microelectronics and semiconductors. The center will hold its annual meeting September 26-27 in West Lafayette, Indiana, with university partners and industry sponsors, highlighting the research that connects the multi-institutional academic community with semiconductor industry leaders and the U.S. Department of Defense to safeguard economic and national security interests.

This year’s annual summit will have a number of industry representatives in attendance and feature more than 30 student research presentations and posters.

The event's tentative agenda includes presentations on:

• a CAD framework for quantifiable assurance of third-party hardware IP

• device age estimation using intrinsic odometers

• advanced circuit techniques for side-channel-attack countermeasures

• environmental characterization of magnetic random access memory

• machine learning for side-channel detection

• detecting side-channel leakage through adversarial training of deep neural networks.