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Pre-Silicon Embedded System Evaluation

Facilitate your security evaluation with specifically designed risk assessment tools.

Pre-silicon evaluation is a key step not to be missed when implementing security in SoC design. It helps reduce time-to-market as well as post tape-out maintenance. By finely emulating the behavior of a device at the design stage, it is possible to anticipate and protect against security weaknesses before they become problems.

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Pre-Silicon evaluation with VirtualyzrTM

VirtualyzrVirtualyzrTM evaluates side-channel security during pre-silicon design stage:

  • Design for Security
    • Provides a security verification layer that works hand in hand with the functional verification workflow
    • Allows performing security checkpoints at different design levels. This feature can be for instance used for non-regression tests.
    • Detects and characterizes the security vulnerabilities from the design
    • Maps the vulnerabilities with the design to help the designer locate and address potential issues.
  • Cheaper evaluation as no measurement equipment or platform is required.
  • Evaluation of mixed design (both hardware and software)

 

Three steps to pre-silicon evaluation

  • Step 1

The design is simulated according to its conception level (RTL / Post Synthesis / Place & Route). The simulated traces are obtained and the user can select the part of its design to be evaluated with VirtualyzrTM.

  • Step 2

The simulated traces are investigated and processed based on a mathematical consumption model.

  • Step 3

An advanced physical analysis is performed on the obtained leakage traces. Two types of analysis can then be performed: side-channel attacks and fault injection attacks analysis.

Security for every step in design life-cycle

VirtualyzrTM is a tool which is part of a larger solution called LaboryzrTM specifically designed to support companies through all the security stages of the design life-cycle.

Secure-IC tools can be used to detect Hardware Trojans and also for Black-Box analysis of devices.

 

Secure-IC can also provide services for security evaluation and penetration testing.

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