What we do...
The institute is developing technologies for future
- secure
- reliable and
- higly available
embedded systems.
Our educational focus as well as our research topics are in the fields of:
- Design of secure hardware
- Design of secure embedded (sub)systems
- Detection and countermeasures to attacs on secure systems
- Verification of all design steps in secure systems
- HW/SW-Codesign of secure embedded systems
Why is education in security so important?
All future systems need security for:
- Secure communication with system components
- Prohibition of system modifications
- Prohibition of piracy of products
Many systems are under heavy attack:
- The attacker has full access on the hardware
- Successfull attacks may lead to high profits
Secutity as a concept
- Security considerations of a system must be an essential part of the design from the very beginning to provide a sufficient protection level.
Security aspects of EDA
- Security requires special principles and techniques for the design of hardware and software.
