Hardware Security and Trust

CIPHER performs research in microelectronic applications, tools, architectures, and materials to enhance the security, trust, and reliability of microelectronic devices, hardware platforms, and the critical systems which rely upon them.  CIPHER researchers develop tools and techniques in the areas of assurance, anti-tamper, and reliability for FPGAs, ASICs, System on a Chip, microcontrollers, and other devices, leveraging custom and formal methods. They further develop assured operations in enterprise, embedded, and cyber-physical systems via novel hardware-oriented security and trust protections and offer cutting-edge research and development in all aspects of configurable computing, such as analysis, emulation, and application of FPGAs using conventional and custom software EDA/CAD tools. 


TMPO Publications

Automated Formal
C. R. Clark, W. Stuckey, N. Braswell, T. Haroldsen, T.-Y. Sung, and O. Shears
Automated Formal Equivalency Checking for FPGA Tool

GOMACTech 2023
Efficient Porting
Efficient Porting of FPGA Independent Testing Within and Across Vendors
T. Haroldsen, T.-Y. Sung, and O. Shears, J. Danner, D. Glick

GOMACTech 2023
Photonic Integrated
Photonic Integrated Circuits: Assessment of State-of-the-Art Manufacturing Industrial Base Capabilities and Needs (PICASSO’S MUSICIANS)
A. Stark, C. Bottenfield, B. M. Kanack, T. R. Harris, L. Sandstrom, B. Wier, H. Foster, B. Yang, T. Stievater, P. G. Goetz, J. Singley, J. Hawke
GOMACTech 2023
Monolithic Integration
Monolithic Integration of RF and Digital Electronics with Photonics for a High-Bandwidth Coherent Driver Modulator
J. Alward, C. Bottenfield, M. Caveney, C. Coen, C. Curry, Michael Grady, S. Hurst, P.K. Jo, J. Joseph, N. Lourenco, B. Lovelace, P. McMenamin, G.J. Samo, L. Sandstrom, B. Sayasean, N. Servies, C. Swanson, M. Tannenbaum, B. Wier, B.B. Yang, A. Zenere, A. Stark, J. Hawke
GOMACTech, 2023
FlowGNN
FlowGNN: A Dataflow Architecture for Real-Time Workload-Agnostic Graph Neural Network Inference
Rishov Sarkar, Stefan Abi-Karam, Yuqi He, Lakshmi Sathidevi, Cong Hao

2023 IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-29)
TurnOn-TuneIn
Turn on, Tune in, Listen up: Maximizing Side-Channel Recovery in Time-to-Digital Converters
Bill Hunter, Colin Drewes, Christopher McCarty, Dustin Richmond, Ryan Kastner, Keegan Ryan
31st ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (isFPGA 2023)
Independent Functional
Independent Functional Test for Microsemi FPGAs
Jay Danner, Lee W. Lerner
GOMACTech 2022
Multicolor Ramsey
Multicolor Ramsey numbers for Berge cycles
Zachary DeStefano, Hannah Mahon, Frank Simutis, Michael Tait
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2021
A-S-C-X
A S/C/X/Ku-band, 4-Tap, Digitally Controllable Analog FIR Filter with Reconfigurable Bandwidth and RF Filtering Profile
Moon-Kyu Cho, Ickhyun Song, Nelson E. Lourenco, Adilson S. Cardoso, Christopher T. Coen, William B. Hunter, Douglas R. Denison, and John D. Cressler
IEEE BiCMOS and Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits and Technology Symposium (BCICTS 2021)
Classifying Computations

 

Classifying Computations on Multi-Tenant FPGAs
Mustafa Gobulukoglu, Colin Drewes, Bill Hunter, Dustin Richmond, Ryan Kastner
58th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC 2021)
Tunable Dual-Edge
 
A Tunable Dual-Edge Time-to-Digital Converter
C. Drewes, S. Harris, W. Wang, R. Appen, O. Weng, R. Kastner, W. Hunter, C. McCarty, and D. Richmond
29th IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM 2021)
Independent Testing

 

Independent Testing of Untrusted FPGAs for Faulty Interconnect
T. Haroldsen, M. French, T. Sung, D. Glick, J. Danner, and L. Lerner
GOMACTech 2021
Canary: FPGA
Canary: An FPGA Assurance Plugin for Vendor EDA Tools
D. Glick, J. Nifong, E. Ruiz, A. Schmidt, T. Haroldsen, J. Monson, and M. French
GOMACTech 2021
Memory-Loss Resilient
Memory-Loss Resilient Controller Design for Temporal Logic Constraints
M. Abate, W. Stuckey, L. Lerner, E. Feron, S. Coogan
Journal of Cyber-Physical Systems 2021
Mapping Electromagnetic
Mapping Electromagnetic Fields in Active Electronic Devices via Novel Scanning Probe Techniques
Kenton Brown and Lee W. Lerner
7th Annual Hardware, Electronics & Advanced Technologies Symposium (HEAT 2020)
Establish Trust--Microelectronics
Establishing Trust in Microelectronics
Lee W. Lerner
28th ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (isFPGA 2020)
Techniques for Sensing Intradevice
Improved Techniques for Sensing Intra-Device Side Channel Leakage
William Hunter, Christopher McCarty, and Lee W. Lerner
27th IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM 2019)
Scanning Probe Field Sensors
Are novel scanning-probe field sensors a tamper threat?
True Merrill, Kenton Brown, Lee W. Lerner
2019 DoD Anti-Tamper Conference
Formal Enforcement Mission Assurance
Formal Enforcement of Mission Assurance Properties in Cyber-Physical Systems
Scott Harper, Jonathan Graf, Michael A. Capone, Justin Eng, Michael Farrell, and Lee W. Lerner
IEEE National Aerospace and Defense Conference (NAECON 2017)
Rapid Precedent-Aware
Rapid Precedent-Aware Pedestrian and Car Classification on Constrained IoT Platforms
Jay Danner, Linda Wills, Elbert M. Ruiz, and Lee W. Lerner
14th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia (ESTIMedia 2016)
Multimodal Web-Based
Multi-Modal Web-Based Dashboards for Geo-Located Real-Time Monitoring
R. Michael Winters, Takahiko Tsuchiya, Lee W. Lerner, and Jason Freeman
2016 Web Audio Conference (WAC)
Trustworthy Autonomic Interface
The Trustworthy Autonomic Interface Guardian Architecture for Cyber-Physical Systems
Kevin G. Lyn, Lee W. Lerner, Christopher J. McCarty, and Cameron D. Patterson
13th IEEE Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2015)
Isolating Trust
Isolating Trust in an Industrial Control System-on-Chip Architecture
Zane R. Franklin, Cameron D. Patterson, Lee W. Lerner, Ron J. Prado
7th International Symposium on Resilient Control Systems (ISRCS 2014)