Advancing Hardware Security Using Polymorphic and Stochastic Spin-Hall Effect Devices

Protecting intellectual property (IP) in electronic circuits has become a serious challenge in recent years. Logic locking/encryption and layout camouflaging are two prominent techniques for IP protection. Most existing approaches, however, particularly those focused on CMOS integration, incur excessive design overheads resulting from their need for additional circuit structures or device-level modifications. This work leverages the innate polymorphism of an emerging spin-based device, called the giant spin-Hall effect (GSHE) switch, to simultaneously enable locking and camouflaging within a single instance. Using the GSHE switch, we propose a powerful primitive that enables cloaking all the 16 Boolean functions possible for two inputs. We conduct a comprehensive study using state-of-the-art Boolean satisfiability (SAT) attacks to demonstrate the superior resilience of the proposed primitive in comparison to several others in the literature. While we tailor the primitive for deterministic computation, it can readily support stochastic computation; we argue that stochastic behavior can break most, if not all, existing SAT attacks. Finally, we discuss the resilience of the primitive against various side-channel attacks as well as invasive monitoring at runtime, which are arguably even more concerning threats than SAT attacks.Comment: Published in Proc. Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) 201

Departamento General de Irrigación

El presente informe expone las características y tareas desarrolladas en el marco de la asignatura “Prácticas Profesionales Supervisadas". La experiencia laboral fue llevada a cabo en el Departamento General de Irrigación - Subdelegación Río Mendoza; durante el período comprendido entre los meses de abril y julio de 2018. Los objetivos propuestos, consistieron en la realización de una experiencia de introducción a los elementos finitos, realizando tareas de validación de software y convergencia de malla para dar soporte a las verificaciones estructurales que se están llevando a cabo sobre distintos componentes de un recipiente a presión en estudio. A continuación, se dará una descripción del organismo público, del puesto de trabajo ocupado, del proyecto en el que se trabajó, de las tareas y actividades realizadas durante las prácticas profesionales, finalizando con algunos comentarios y conclusiones a los que se arribó.Fil: Courbon, Yannick. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ingeniería

Challenges and examples of in-situ memory content extraction techniques

We present embedded devices memory elements - from core registers to off chip-use, type and architecture before summarising their features regarding extraction techniques at scale. We list recent and on-going attack platform methodologies prior analysing their pros and cons. Particularly of importance, we address combined attack approaches, signal processing techniques and the challenges of low cost extraction methodologies. Above all, we characterise beam-based extraction techniques, starting from sample preparation before concluding on in-situ memory content extraction limits and countermeasures

Chronic pain and pain processing in Parkinson’s disease

Pain is experienced by the vast majority of patients living with Parkinson’s disease. It is most often of nociceptive origin, but may also be ascribed to neuropathic (radicular or central) or miscellaneous sources. The recently validated King’s Parkinson’s Disease Pain Scale is based on 7 domains including musculoskeletal pain, chronic body pain (central or visceral), fluctuation-related pain, nocturnal pain, oro-facial pain, pain with discolouration/oedema/swelling, and radicular pain. The basal ganglia integrate incoming nociceptive information and contribute to coordinated motor responses in pain avoidance and nocifensive behaviors. In Parkinson’s disease, nigral and extra-nigral pathology, involving cortical areas, brainstem nuclei, and spinal cord, may contribute to abnormal central nociceptive processing in patients experiencing pain or not. The dopamine deficit lowers multimodal pain thresholds that are amenable to correction following levodopa dosing. Functional brain imaging with positron emission tomography following administration of H215O revealed abnormalities in the sensory discriminative processing of pain (insula/SII), as well as in the affective motivational processing of pain (anterior cingulate cortex, prefrontal cortex). Pain management is dependent on efforts invested in diagnostic accuracy to distinguish nociceptive from neuropathic pain. Treatment requires an integrated approach including strategies to lessen levodopa-related response fluctuations, in addition to other pharmacological and non-pharmacological options such as deep brain stimulation and rehabilitation

"The Institut Pascal Data Sets" : un jeu de données en extérieur, multicapteurs et datées avec réalité terrain, données d'étalonnage et outils logiciels

National audienceLa mise à disposition au public de jeux de données permet des progrès conséquents pour la validation des travaux de recherche. Nous présentons dans cet article un jeu de données multi-capteurs acquises sur un campus. L'Institut Pascal DataSets peut être utilisé dans une large variété d'applications robotiques et de traitement d'images. Il inclut entre autres une réalité terrain fournie par un GPS centimétrique et des images panoramiques couleur. Sont également fournies des séquences additionnelles pour des phases d'étalonnage, des données a priori ainsi que des outils logiciels

Practical Partial Hardware Reverse Engineering Analysis

Funder: Isaac Newton Trust; doi: https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004815Abstract: Reverse engineering typically requires expensive equipment, skilled technicians, time, a cross section of the component to be sliced out and a dedicated reconstruction software. In this paper, we present a low-cost alternative, combining fast frontside sample preparation, electron microscopy imaging, error-free standard cell recognition and within and between-die standard cell statistical analysis (SCSA). Step-by-step, we depict the process to access the transistor’s drain/source area, to acquire the full area of a single chip layer, to adapt pattern recognition for standard cells and to analyze the standard cell width, local/global location and occurrences number. The inner workings of each step are accompanied by results on 45–65-nm FCBGA devices enabling to locate specific areas (e.g. registers, hardware accelerator). We particularly point out the importance of such design information extraction for local fault injection and hardware assurance. The primary goal is to analyze how much design information of a complex integrated circuit can be retrieved with minimal costs and without outsourcing

Navigation de Robots Mobiles par Mémoire Sensorielle

This thesis is concerned with a complete navigation framework for mobile robots based on a representation of the environment as a sensory memory. The objective is to drive the robot from a place to another place along paths which have been travelled during a learning step. The memory structure, firstly detailled, is built from key images acquired during this teleoperated step. Given a target key image, the robot first localizes itself on the sensory memory and then a sensory route is extracted to reach the target image. Sensor-based control laws have been proposed for wheeled non-holonomic mobile robots and quadrotor aerial vehicles, taking into account the movement constraints of those robots. For omnidirectional or fisheye cameras, an efficient approach for initial localization has been proposed as well as tools to estimate the state of the vehicle required to compute the control laws outputs. The complete framework has been setup, with a particular attention to the memory management. Many applications on different robots and with different cameras validate our approach and show promising results.Ce travail de thèse présente un système complet de navigation pour un robot mobile fondé sur une représentation de l'environnement par une mémoire sensorielle. L'objectif de ces travaux est de faire se déplacer un robot d'un lieu à un autre le long de chemins parcourus lors d'une phase d'apprentissage. La structuration de la mémoire sensorielle, constituée de données clés acquises lors de cette phase initiale, est tout d'abord décrite. Nous proposons ensuite des lois de commande permettant le suivi d'une route sensorielle, c'est-à-dire une séquence d'images clés à atteindre successivement et permettant d'aller de l'image correspondant à la localisation initiale du robot à une image cible. Ces lois de commande, basées sur le formalisme de la commande référencée capteurs, prennent en compte les contraintes de déplacement des véhicules considérés: robots à roues non-holonomes et robots aériens de type quadrirotor. Dans le cadre de capteurs visuels omnidirectionels ou grand-angle, nous présentons une approche efficace pour la localisation initiale du robot ainsi que les outils permettant l'estimation de l'état du véhicule nécessaire pour alimenter les lois de commande proposées. Le système complet de navigation a été mis en oeuvre avec une attention particulière portée sur la conception du système de gestion de la mémoire sensorielle. Des applications sur plusieurs types de véhicules et avec des caméras grand-angle ont permis de valider notre approche

Inner ear ossification and mineralization kinetics in human embryonic development - microtomographic and histomorphological study.

Little is known about middle and inner ear development during the second and third parts of human fetal life. Using ultra-high resolution Microcomputed Tomography coupled with bone histology, we performed the first quantitative middle and inner ear ossification/mineralization evaluation of fetuses between 17 and 39 weeks of gestational age. We show distinct ossification paces between ossicles, with a belated development of the stapes. A complete cochlear bony covering is observed within the time-frame of the onset of hearing, whereas distinct time courses of ossification for semicircular canal envelopes are observed in relation to the start of vestibular functions. The study evidences a spatio-temporal relationship between middle and inner ear structure development and the onset of hearing and balance, critical senses for the fetal adaptation to birth