Hardware Security and Reliability

This module explores hardware security and reliability, focusing on the physical aspects of security in computing devices. It covers the vulnerabilities inherent in hardware components, techniques for hardware-based security, and strategies to ensure hardware reliability.

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Nomura, Sinclair, Ho, Govindaraju, de Kruijf and Sankaralingam. “Sampling + DMR: Practical and Low-overhead Permanent Fault Detection.” ISCA, 2011.

Leng, Buyuktosunoglu, Bertran, Bose, Chen, Guo and Reddi. “Asymmetric Resilience: Exploiting Task-level Idempotency for Transient Error Recovery in Accelerator-based Systems.” HPCA 2020.

Papadimitriou and Gizopoulos. “Demystifying the System Vulnerability Stack: Transient Fault Effects Across the Layers” ISCA, 2021

Dixit et al. “Detecting silent data corruptions in the wild” SOSP’23: Proceedings of the 29th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 2023.

Swaminathan, Chandramoorthy, Cher, Bertran, Buyuktosunoglu and Bose. “BRAVO: Balanced Reliability-Aware Voltage Optimization” HPCA, 2017.

Dally, William J, and Curtis R. Harting. “Digital Design: A Systems Approach,” 1st ed, Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Patterson, David A, Hennessy, John L, and Morgan Kaufmann. “Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware Software Interface,” RISC-V Edition, , 1st ed., 2017.

Hill et al. “On the Spectre and Meltdown Processor Security Vulnerabilities” IEEE, 2019.

Koche et al. “Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution.” IEEE, 2019.

Lipp et al. “Meltdown: Reading Kernel Memory from User Space” Communications of the ACM, Volume 63, Issue 6, 2020.