Microarchitectural attacks typically rely on precise timing sources to uncover short-lived
secret-dependent activity in the processor. In response, many browsers and even CPU …

In the last years, there has been a rapid increase in microarchitectural attacks, exploiting
side effects of various parts of the CPU. Most of them have in common that they rely on …

Smart homes enhance energy efficiency without compromising residents' comfort. To
support smart home deployment and services, an IoT network must be established, while …

Modern processors are too complex to be bug free. Recently, a few hardware fuzzing
techniques have shown promising results in verifying processor designs. However, due to …

Microcode provides an abstraction layer over the instruction set to decompose complex
instructions into simpler micro-operations that can be more easily implemented in hardware …

Modern systems rely on several layers of abstraction to implement their expected
functionality. Securing complex systems is extremely difficult, as any abstraction layer can be …

Performance tuning of High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications depends on
sophisticated tuning of parameters on diverse architectures. These parameters are made …

The component's roadmaps expose a drastic increase of the peak power and TDP for the
current and next generations of components.. This research and talk are focused on the …