Mitigating Threats With Pre-Silicon Security Verification

The safety and security of the silicon chips ubiquitous in modern life have become prime considerations in semiconductor development. Functional safety is well understood, with numerous industry standards and a variety of established mechanisms embedded in silicon to ensure that systems do not misbehave due to environmental conditions or aging. Security is an equally important concern, but techniques to design secure chips have emerged relatively recently. This post discusses the types of threat