5 papers
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…
Robust Beam Codebooks for mmWave/THz Systems: Toward a Stochastic RL Approach
Anouar Nechi, Rainer Buchty, Mladen Berekovic +1
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) massive MIMO systems often rely on predefined beamforming codebooks, which are usually suboptimal in Non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS) condition…
SAILOR: A Scalable and Energy-Efficient Ultra-Lightweight RISC-V for IoT Security
Christian Ewert, Tim Hardow, Melf Fritsch +5
Recently, RISC-V has contributed to the development of IoT devices, requiring architectures that balance energy efficiency, compact area, and integrated security. However, most rec…
IMS: Intelligent Hardware Monitoring System for Secure SoCs
Wadid Foudhaili, Aykut Rencber, Anouar Nechi +4
In the modern Systems-on-Chip (SoC), the Advanced eXtensible Interface (AXI) protocol exhibits security vulnerabilities, enabling partial or complete denial-of-service (DoS) throug…
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…