Hardware (HW) security issues have been emerging at an alarming rate in recent years.
Transient execution attacks, such as Spectre and Meltdown, in particular, pose a genuine …

Process isolation is a key component of the security architecture in any hardware/software
system. However, even when implemented correctly and comprehensively at the software …

Many SoCs employ system-level hardware access control mechanisms to ensure that
security-critical operations cannot be tampered with by less trusted components of the …

Spectre and Meltdown attacks proved Transient Execution Side Channels to be a notable
challenge for designing secure microarchitectures. Various countermeasures against these …

The importance of preventing microarchitectural timing side channels in security-critical
applications has surged in recent years. Constant-time programming has emerged as a best …

This paper introduces the project Scale4Edge. The project is focused on enabling an
effective RISC-V ecosystem for optimization of edge applications. We describe the basic …

Microarchitectural timing side channels have been thoroughly investigated as a security
threat in hardware designs featuring shared buffers (eg, caches) and/or parallelism between …

Microarchitectural timing side channels have been thoroughly investigated as a security
threat in hardware designs featuring shared buffers (eg, caches) and/or parallelism between …

Rogue In-Flight Data Load (RIDL) is a microarchitecture security attack that exploits store-to-
load forwarding in the line fill buffer. Several microarchitecture-level mitigations have been …

Microprocessor security is a pressing concern in our rapidly evolving digital systems, where
vulnerabilities can lead to a catastrophic consequences. Recent transient execution attack …