3 papers
cs.CR2026
SPARC: Automated Root-Cause Analysis of Pre-Silicon Power Side-Channel Leakage in the Processor Design Flow
Andrija NeÅ¡koviÄ, Christian Ewert, Mladen Berekovic +1
Power-Side-Channel Leakage (PSCL) originates from architectural and micro-architectural artifacts in a processor and poses a severe threat to the confidentiality of cryptographic s…
cs.AR2025
Lightweight Unified Sha-3/Shake Architecture with a Fault-Resilient State
Christian Ewert, Amrit Sharma Poudel, Mouadh Ayache +5
Hash functions have become a key part of standard Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) schemes, especially Sha-3 and Shake, calling arXiv:submit/7045552 [cs.AR] 3 Dec 2025 for lightweig…
cs.AR2025
Secure Software/Hardware Hybrid In-Field Testing for System-on-Chip
Saleh Mulhem, Christian Ewert, Andrija Neskovic +4
Modern Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) incorporate built-in self-test (BIST) modules deeply integrated into the device's intellectual property (IP) blocks. Such modules handle hardware faul…