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	Hardware Security and Safety of IC Chips and Systems

Host: Dr. Francesco Regazzoni

Monday

19.05

USI Campus EST, Room D1.13

10:00 - 11:30


	Makoto Nagata Kobe University

Abstract: IC chips are key enablers to a smartly networked society and need to be more compliant to security and safety. For example, semiconductor solutions for autonomous vehicles must meet stringent regulations and requirements. While designers develop circuits and systems to meet the performance and functionality of such products, countermeasures are proactively implemented in silicon to protect against harmful disturbances and even intentional adversarial attacks. This talk will start with electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) techniques applied to IC chips for safety to motivate EMC-aware design, analysis, and implementation. It will discuss IC design challenges to achieve the higher levels of hardware security (HWS). Crypto-based secure IC chips are investigated to avoid the risks of side-channel leakages and side-channel attacks, corroborated with silicon demonstrating analog techniques to protect digital functionality. The EMC and HWS disciplines derived from electromagnetic principles are key to establishing IC design principles for security and safety.

Biography: Makoto Nagata received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1991 and 1993, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering from Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, in 2001. He was a research associate at Hiroshima University from 1994 to 2001, an associate professor at Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, from 2002 to 2008, and promoted to a full professor in 2009. He was the dean of the graduate school of science, technology and innovation (2022-2023). He chaired the technology directions subcommittee for ISSCC (2018-2022) and served for its executive committee secretary (2023-2025). He was the technical program chair (2010–2011), the symposium chair (2012–2013), and an executive committee member (2014–2015) for the symposium on VLSI circuits. He was an organizing committee chair of AsianHOST 2024. He was the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) AdCom member (2020-2022) and presently serves as the distinguished lecturer (2020-2021 andm2024-present) and the chapters vice chair (2022-) of the society. He was the president of Electronics Society of IEICE (2024).