Overview
At Silicon Assurance, we believe in empowering your business by securing your chips
Silicon Assurance
was created to address the challenge of building trust in silicon chips that drive your devices. In the new digital era, electronic devices are getting increasingly smarter and more interconnected. Propelling these devices are high-performance silicon chips, which can run complex algorithms ranging from machine learning to (cryptographic) hashing and encryption. Ensuring these chips are operating as intended in any environment and are immune to unwarranted interference is going to be crucial for trusting electronic devices. As such, developing assurance technologies to secure chips has become ever so important in the new digital technology era.
Silicon Assurance
is at the forefront of addressing trust issues by providing security assurance solutions for silicon chips. We help our customers by providing best-in-class technologies with which they can evaluate and protect the chips used in their devices ranging from smartphones to self-driving cars. The unique portfolio of products and expertise provided by Silicon Assurance will enhance the confidence of our customers in selling their devices to end-users.
Which trust issues does Silicon Assurance addresses?
Counteract IP theft, IP modification, and reverse engineering of chips:
In the semiconductor industry, an IP block can be stolen for financial gains as well as reverse-engineered with the intention of identifying the designs process technology for competitive advantage or for malicious modification. Silicon Assurance’s Analyz™-P toolset includes a methodology to transform the IP block at the gate level to mitigate these issues.
Detection of intentional and unintentional design flaws (or vulnerabilities) in chips:
High demand, increasing complexity of chips, and shorter Time-to-Market (TTM) have led to the increase of unintentional design flaws/vulnerabilities and the possibility for insertion of intentional (hardware Trojan, malicious components, backdoors) flaws/vulnerabilities in chips. An adversary can take advantage of such vulnerabilities to leak sensitive data. Silicon Assurance’s Analyz™-N toolset can quantitatively evaluate a chip for unintentional and intentional flaws/vulnerabilities at the gate level.