The doctoral work of Dominik Šišejković, titled "Trustworthy Hardware Design with Logic Locking", has won the best PhD award at the VLSI-SoC'21 PhD forum. The work focuses on various aspects of logic locking (a hardware obfuscation technique) to protect the integrity of modern hardware designs against malicious modifications. The work has been supervised by Prof. Rainer Leupers.
Following comprehensive research activities within the UMIC Excellence Cluster, Silexica has been founded at ICE in 2014 by Maximilian Odendahl, Johannes Emigholz, Dr. Weihua Sheng, Prof. Jeronimo Castrillon and Prof. Rainer Leupers. First seed funding has been provided via the BMBF EXIST program, and early technology adopters from industry included Huawei and Samsung.
The Institute for Communication Technologies and Embedded Systems (ICE) welcomes its first AROP fellow, Mr. Nikhilesh Kumar Singh. Mr. Singh will be joining the chair for Software for Systems on Silicon (SSS) and working on malware detection to ensure system security.
Mr. Singh is a PhD student working with Prof. Chester Rebeiro at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras - an…
2020 marks the sixth edition of the HiPEAC Tech Transfer Awards. This year, Dominik Šišejković received the award for successfully transferring "a scalable logic locking framework for hardware integrity protection and its application to a RISC-V processor" to the industrial partner HENSOLDT Cyber GmbH. This framework offers the first tool to efficiently protect silicon-proven…
ICE and Technion have organized another successful "SeHAS: Secure Hardware, Architectures, and Operating Systems" workshop at the HiPEAC 2021 conference. The workshop included two keynotes and multiple invited talks from top security experts. A highlight of the workshop were the two distinctive keynote talks, including an in-depth presentation about the influential RowHammer attack…
ZUSE-KI-AVF – Anwedungsspezifischer KI-Prozessor für die intelligente Sensorsignalverarbeitung im autonomen Fahren
The project „ZUSE-KI-AVF“ utilizes the scientific expertise of the ICE to design an efficient compiler for an AI-processor. The project is funded by the federal government via the ZUSE-project-call focussing on the development of sustainable, specialised…
The profile area Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at RWTH Aachen University honored this year Dominik Šišejković with the "ICT Young Researcher Award 2020", for his contributions to the ICT related research. Dominik Šišejković is a doctoral student at the Chair for Software for Systems on Silicon (SSS) under the supervision of Prof. Rainer Leupers. This award includes…
for the Stamatis Vassiliadis Best Paper Award. Main authors are Niko Zurstraßen and Lukas Jünger from ICE. The work results from a collaboration with Synopsys, Aachen.
In the context of an industry project, ICE contributed to the HENSOLDT Cyber MiG-V. This is a general purpose, logic-encrypted processor, Made in Germany and targeting high-security applications. Logic encryption hinders the insertion of hardware Trojans, ensuring full control of the design and production chain. The CPU is based on a 64-Bit RISC-V core and can be used together with…
