Design of Secure and Anti-Counterfeit Integrated Circuits

Dr. Shahab Ardalan
Assistant Professor EE Dept., San Jose State University

Cerent Engineering Science Complex, Salazar Hall 2009A
3:00 PM

Abstract – In recent years, there has been a rapid innovation in the field of portable devices which has revolutionized the whole electronic market. The personalized gadgets such as smartphones are part of users’ life which contain sensitive data and private information. Privacy and protection of the data is a crucial task, consequently so many encryption techniques have been introduced to keep the data out of the hands of hackers. However, hackers employed new techniques that often proved the vulnerability of the crypto-processors. It is therefore imperative that system architects, circuit designers be aware of the security issue and be familiar with techniques to tackle such a rapidly growing threat. In light of the great importance to the new design dimension, security, this talk is proposed to provide an insight into and understanding of security challenges in design of digital circuits, identify the security requirements and present approaches leading to designing secure Cryptosystem-on-Chip (CoC).

Dr. Shahab Ardalan (IEEE M'02, SM'10) received his B.Sc. in EE at Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran in 1999, and his PhD degree at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada in 2007. Dr. Ardalan joined analog mixed signal research and development group in Gennum Corp. in 2007 where he was continuing his research activities on low-power, low-voltage circuits for high speed data and video broadcasting. In 2010, Dr. Ardalan joined San Jose State University as an assistant professor and director of center for analog and mixed signal where he is teaching and conducting research on topics of analog and mixed signal integrated circuits and integrated circuit security. Dr. Ardalan’s research has led to several publications and patents. He is the recipient of the best paper award of ICUE’04 and the CMC Industrial Award from strategic Microelectronic Council of ITAC in 2005. Dr. Ardalan was holding a postgraduate scholarship from National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) from 2004-2007 and NSERC post-doctoral fellowship award in 2010. He has been member of technical and organizing committee for number IEEE conferences and IEEE Canada Central Area Chair 2010-2011, member of IEEE Canada board of executive from 2004 till 2011.