Implementation of Hardware Security Electronic Design Automation Tools for FPGA accelerators

Abstract

The majority of modern digital applications (IoT, automotive, medical, banking applications, etc.) rely on cryptographic applications to provide security. The presence of attacks such as Side Channel Analysis attacks and Fault Injection attacks can significantly degrade
and even eliminate the desired levels of security.

In this Thesis, the Rapidwright libraries (https://www.rapidwright.io) will be used to implement electronic design automation tools with the aim of increasing the performance and studying security properties of FPGA implementations.

Experience will be gained on the synthesis tools for Xilinx FPGAs, hardware attacks, and designing electronic automation
tools for security applications on FPGA architectures.

Keywords
Security
Hardware Accelerators
FPGA
IoT
Cryptography
ERC sector(s)
PE Physical Sciences and Engineering
Name supervisor
Athanasios Papadimitriou
E-mail
a.papadimitriou@go.uop.gr
Name of Department/Faculty/School
Department of Digital Systems / School of Economics and Technology
Name of the host University
University of the Peloponnesse (UoP)
EUNICE partner e-mail of destination Research
eunice-wp4@uop.gr
Country
Greece
Thesis level
Bachelor
Minimal language knowledge requisite
English A1
Thesis mode
Hybrid
Start date
Length of the research internship
6 months
Financial support available (other than E+)
No