Sponsor: Orange County Section Chapter, SSC37
Speaker: Makoto Nagata of Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

Meeting Date: 04 Jun 2024
Time: 06:29 PM – 08:15 PM
Cost:
Location: Irvine
Reservations: IEEE
Summary:
IC chips are key enablers to a smartly networked society and need to be more compliant to security and safety. For example, semiconductor solutions for autonomous vehicles must meet stringent regulations and requirements. While designers develop circuits and systems to meet the performance and functionality of such products, countermeasures are proactively implemented in silicon to protect against harmful disturbances and even intentional adversarial attacks. This talk will start with electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) techniques applied to IC chips for safety to motivate EMC-aware design, analysis, and implementation. It will discuss IC design challenges to achieve higher levels of hardware security (HWS). Crypto-based secure IC chips are investigated to avoid the risks of side-channel leakages and side-channel attacks, corroborated with silicon demonstrating analog techniques to protect digital functionality. The EMC and HWS disciplines derived from electromagnetic principles are key to establishing IC design principles for security and safety.

Bio: Makoto Nagata (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1991 and 1993, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering from Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, in 2001.

He was a Research Associate at Hiroshima University from 1994 to 2002, an Associate Professor at Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, from 2002 to 2009, where he was promoted to a Full Professor in 2009.

His research interests include design techniques targeting high-performance mixed analog, RF and digital VLSI systems with particular emphasis on power/signal/substrate integrity and electromagnetic compatibility, testing and diagnosis, 2.5D and 3D system integration, as well as their applications for hardware security and hardware safety, and cryogenic electronics for quantum computing.