ISSCC 2026
Session 25
Hardware Security
A PVT Variation- and Attack-Tolerant Metastability-Based TRNG Using Binary Search in 2nm
Abstract This work presents a single source, metastability-based TRNG using binary search with offset-tunable comparator. The proposed TRNG operates without warm-up time and is robust against low-frequency noise, PVT var
ISSCC 2026
Session 25
Hardware Security
A Sub-Threshold All-NMOS Reconfigurable PUF with Secure Configuration Selection for Stable 6b/Cell
*Equally Credited Authors (ECAs) Abstract In this work, a reconfigurable PUF featuring secure configuration selection is presented. Without exposing secret PUF data, it achieves 6 stable bits per cell (b/cell) and “zero”
ISSCC 2026
Session 25
Hardware Security
TinyPAD: A 166µm2/lane Variation-Tolerant Probing-Attack Detector for an 8Gb/s/lane Chip-to-Chip Interface in 16nm FinFET
Abstract We present TinyPAD, a 166µm2/lane probing-attack detector in 16nm FinFET with 82pF maximum supported loading as well as 0.2pF minimum detectable capacitance (MDC) that operates robustly over -40 to125°C and from
ISSCC 2026
Session 25
Hardware Security
A 17%/27% Area-/Energy-Overhead Glitch-Transition Secure SHA-3 Engine Fusing Dual-Rail Precharge Logic and Asymmetric Masking
Laboratory of Cryptography and Digital Economy Security, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Wuxi Research Institute of Applied Technologies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 4Micro Innovation Integrated Circuit Desi
ISSCC 2026
Session 25
Hardware Security
A 0.05mm2 1.19-to-7.34mW SQIsign-1D Isogeny-Based Post-Quantum Signature Verification Accelerator for IoT
Abstract This work presents a 0.05mm2 and 1.19-to-7.34mW hardware accelerator for the isogenybased NIST post-quantum digital signature candidate SQIsign. Our Montgomery multiplier design enables 2× speedup and energy sav
ISSCC 2026
Session 25
Hardware Security
OmniCrypt: A 435.86M-GOPS/W Bootstrappable Multi-Scheme FHE Accelerator with On-Chip Data Generation for Privacy-Preserving Computation
*Equally Credited Authors (ECAs) Abstract OmniCrypt is a silicon-proven multi-scheme FHE accelerator that supports both bootstrapping and scheme switching. Fabricated in 28nm CMOS (12.96mm2), it integrates three speciali
ISSCC 2026
Session 25
Hardware Security
A 16nm 0.042mm2 0.66µJ/Ops Lightweight MLWE PQC KEM with Cryptanalysis-ASIC Co-Optimization
(ECAs) 1 Abstract Resource-limited devices demand post-quantum cryptography (PQC) within stringent power, area, and memory limits. To our knowledge this work introduces the first cryptanalysis-ASIC co-optimized PQC IC, a
ISSCC 2026
Session 25
Hardware Security
A 28nm 0.48mJ/boot Torus FHE Processor for Arbitrary Computation on Encrypted Data
Abstract This work presents a 3.24mm2 torus fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) processor fabricated in 28nm CMOS, featuring: 1) a security-preserving low-bit-width torus quantization with keys hints reducing latency by 6
ISSCC 2026
Session 25
Hardware Security
A 65nm 0.066pJ/b Floating-Latch-Based True Random Number Generator Resilient to Power-Noise Injection Attacks
Abstract In Paper 25.10 a floating-latch-based true random number generator (FL-TRNG) is presented that achieves an energy efficiency of 0.066pJ/b by leveraging a floating reservoir capacitor as its power supply. This ar
ISSCC 2026
Session 25
Hardware Security
HERACLES: 8192-Way SIMD Programmable Scalable Fully-Homomorphic Encryption SoC for Privacy-Preserving Cloud Computing in Intel 3 CMOS
Vikram Suresh1, Adish Vartak1, AppaRao Challagundla2, Jeremy Casas1, Poornima Lalwaney1, Duhyeong Kim1, Christopher N. Gutierrez1, Ernesto Zamora Ramos1, Wonhee Cho1, Jose M. Rojas Chaves1, Michael Steiner1, Dan Lake1, N
ISSCC 2025
Session 17
Hardware Security
A 100MHz Self-Calibrating RC Oscillator Capable of Clock-Glitch Detection for Hardware Security in a 3nm FinFET Process
Mahmut Sinangil1, C. Thomas Gray2 Nvidia, Santa Clara, CA Nvidia, Durham, NC 1 2 On-chip oscillators are emerging as a critical circuit for improving the security of systemon-chips (SoCs). Many SoCs utilize an on-chip os
ISSCC 2025
Session 17
Hardware Security
An Eye-Opening Arbiter PUF for Fingerprint Generation Using Auto-Error Detection for PVT-Robust Masking and Bit Stabilization Achieving a BER of 2e-8 in 28nm CMOS
John G. Kauffman, Maurits Ortmanns University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) enable hardware identification and security key generation without storing them in non-volatile memory or exposing
ISSCC 2025
Session 17
Hardware Security
An Efficient Vth-Tilting PUF Design in 3nm GAA and 8nm FinFET Technologies and implemented in the 3nm (GAA) and 8nm (FinFet) technology nodes. The evaluations were performed on the test dies of both technologies across various process corners and operational conditions, where each die contains six PUF macros.
Figure 17.4.3 presents the distribution of &Vth in PUF cells, as measured in the analog Monte Jisu Kang, Taewook Park, Eunhye Oh, Gapkyung Kim, Sungha Lee, Hyunwoo Ko, Carlo simulation of 3nm (GAA) PUF cells, along with
ISSCC 2025
Session 17
Hardware Security
A 30.4GOPS/mW MK-CKKS Processor for Secure Multi-Party Computation
Secure data processing has become critical to privacy-preserving in the data-driven AI era. Multi-party computation (MPC) enables computations among multiple parties (users) in a collaborative way while preserving data p
ISSCC 2025
Session 17
Hardware Security
A 28nm 4.05µJ/Encryption 8.72kHMul/s Reconfigurable Multi-Scheme Fully Homomorphic Encryption Processor for Encrypted Client-Server Computing
Chen Chen1,2, Xiangdong Han1,2, Jinjiang Yang3,$Hanning Wang1,2, Min Zhu4, Shaojun Wei1,2, Aoyang Zhang1, Leibo$Liu1,2 Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Beijing National Research Center for lnformation Science and Tech
ISSCC 2025
Session 17
Hardware Security
Sensor-Less Laser Voltage-Probing Attack Detection via Run-Time-Leakage-Shift Monitoring with 4.35% Area Overhead
Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China 1 2 *Equally Credited Authors (ECAs) Higher levels of security are constantly demanded in view of the ever-expanding threats of physical attacks [1–7], whose
ISSCC 2023
Session 15
Hardware Security
A 100Gbps Fault-Injection Attack Resistant AES-256 Engine with 99.1-to-99.99% Error Coverage in Intel 4 CMOS
from cryptographic engines to extract secret keys. A single fault injected into the penultimate AES round using directed laser pulses or voltage/clock glitches corrupts 4 output bytes (Fig. 15.5.1), reducing key search s
ISSCC 2023
Session 15
Hardware Security
A 28nm 68MOPS 0.18µJ/Op Paillier Homomorphic Encryption Processor with Bit-Serial Sparse Ciphertext Computing
of tremendous emerging information applications, providing various reliable and high-performance services based on vast amounts of individual and organizational data. Paillier homomorphic encryption (PHE)
ISSCC 2023
Session 15
Hardware Security
A 33kDMIPS 6.4W Vehicle Communication Gateway Processor
in the Control domain can start the CAN service in parallel with booting for other (nonCAN) services. Moreover, decryption by a secure CPU and data loading from external memory can be performed in parallel by double buff
ISSCC 2023
Session 15
Hardware Security
A 2.19µW Self-Powered SoC with Integrated Multimodal
Everactive, Charlottesville, VA, 2Everactive, Santa Clara, CA, 3Everactive, Ann Arbor, MI preserved. The SoC is designed to operate near-threshold to achieve its low power floor. Thus, an AVFS block is included to improv
ISSCC 2023
Session 15
Hardware Security
A Self-Powered SoC with Distributed Cooperative Energy Harvesting and Multi-Chip Power Management for System-in-Fiber
Michael Rickley2, Andrew Kopanski2, Lauren Cantley2, Austin Coon2, Matthew Bernasconi2, Tairan Wang2, Benton H. Calhoun1 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA 1 2 Rapid reducti
ISSCC 2022
Session 34
Hardware Security
An 8.3-to-18Gbps Reconfigurable SCA-Resistant/DualCore/Blind-Bulk AES Engine in Intel 4 CMOS
Amit Agarwal, Vivek K. De, Sanu K. Mathew Intel, Hillsboro, OR Power and electromagnetic (EM) side-channel attacks (SCA) exploit data-dependent power consumption from cryptographic engines to extract embedded secret keys
ISSCC 2022
Session 34
Hardware Security
A Threshold-Implementation-Based Neural-Network Accelerator Securing Model Parameters and Inputs Against Power Side-Channel Attacks
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India 3 Analog Devices, Wilmington, MA 1 2 Neural network (NN) hardware accelerators are being widely deployed on low-power IoT nodes for energy-efficient decision making. Embedded
ISSCC 2022
Session 34
Hardware Security
A 28nm 48KOPS 3.4µJ/Op Agile Crypto-Processor for Post-Quantum Cryptography on Multi-Mathematical Problems
era, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) processors are required to ensure quantum-secure communication and e-commerce with high throughput, while maintaining adequate flexibility to execute different crypto-primitives, such
ISSCC 2021
Session 36
Hardware Security
An Automatic Self-Checking and Healing Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) with <3×10-8 Bit Error Rate
*Equally Credited Authors (ECAs) Physically unclonable functions (PUF) have emerged as a promising solution for secure and low-cost key storage and hardware authentication. A key challenge in PUF designs is ensuring the
ISSCC 2021
Session 36
Hardware Security
A Physically Unclonable Function Combining a Process Mismatch Amplifier in an Oscillator Collapse Topology
Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) have been actively investigated as a promising solution for low-cost secure authentication in Internet of Things (IoT) applications. A PUF should generate unique challenge-response
ISSCC 2021
Session 36
Hardware Security
A Modeling Attack Resilient Strong PUF with Feedback-SPN Structure Having <0.73% Bit Error Rate Through In-Cell Hot-Carrier Injection Burn-In
lowenergy and low-latency authentication requirements of IoT applications, owing to their exponential number of challenge-response pairs (CRPs). However, Strong PUFs suffer from vulnerability to modeling attacks and a hi
ISSCC 2021
Session 36
Hardware Security
An EM/Power SCA-Resilient AES-256 with Synthesizable Signature Attenuation Using Digital-Friendly Current Source and RO-Bleed-Based Integrated Local Feedback and Global Switched-Mode Control
side-channel information in the form of correlated power and electromagnetic (EM) signals, leading to physical sidechannel analysis (SCA) attacks. Circuit-level countermeasures against power/EM SCA include current equali
ISSCC 2021
Session 36
Hardware Security
Unified In-Memory Dynamic TRNG and Multi-Bit Static PUF Entropy Generation for Ubiquitous Hardware Security including PUF responses lying at bin boundaries (affecting masking only marginally, see BER below).
In Fig. 36.1.4, the TRNG was confirmed to have consistent measured output quality across very different data patterns (all 0’s for minimum jitter vs. random data), 0.8-to-1V supply and -10 to 75°C temperature. The min-en
ISSCC 2020
Session 27
Hardware Security
Physically Unclonable Function in 28nm FDSOI Technology Achieving High Reliability for AEC-Q100 Grade 1 and ISO26262 ASIL-B
Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are considered a secure method for security key generation because they generate responses that exist only during operation. A challenge regarding the use of PUFs is to achieve high
ISSCC 2020
Session 27
Hardware Security
EM and Power SCA-Resilient AES-256 in 65nm CMOS Through >350× Current-Domain Signature Attenuation
Shovan Maity1, Baibhab Chatterjee1, Donghyun Seo1, Muya Chang2, Avinash Varna3, Harish Krishnamurthy4, Sanu Mathew4, Santosh Ghosh4, Arijit Raychowdhury2, Shreyas Sen1 Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Georgia Instit
ISSCC 2020
Session 27
Hardware Security
M0N0: A Performance-Regulated 0.8-to-38MHz DVFS ARM Cortex-M33 SIMD MCU with 10nW Sleep Power
Jonas Svedas1, Matthew J Walker1, Supreet Jeloka2, Philex Ming-Yan Fan1, Fernando García-Redondo1, Thanusree Achuthan1, James Myers1 ARM, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2ARM, Austin, TX 1 Recent research has shown subthresho
ISSCC 2020
Session 27
Hardware Security
A 65nm Energy-Harvesting ULP SoC with 256kB CortexM0 Enabling an 89.1µW Continuous Machine Health Monitoring Wireless Self-Powered System
Kyle Craig2, Greg Glennon2, Kuo-Ken Huang3, Christopher J. Lukas2, William Moore3, Richard K. Sawyer2, Yousef Shakhsheer2,4, Farah B. Yahya2, Alice Wang3, Nathan E. Roberts2, David D. Wentzloff1, Benton H. Calhoun2 Evera
ISSCC 2019
Session 25
Hardware Security
A 128b AES Engine with Higher Resistance to Power and Electromagnetic Side-Channel Attacks Enabled by a Security-Aware Integrated All-Digital Low-Dropout Regulator
information leakage through power consumption and electromagnetic (EM) emissions from cryptographic engines to uncover secret keys. Integrated inductive voltage regulators (IVR) with a randomized control loop [1] or swit
ISSCC 2019
Session 25
Hardware Security
A Reconfigurable RRAM Physically Unclonable Function Utilizing Post-Process Randomness Source with <6×10-6 Native Bit Error Rate
Wei-Hao Chen2, Ting-Wei Chang2, Wei-En Lin2, Xiaoyu Sun3, Shimeng Yu3, He Qian1, Meng-Fan Chang2, Huaqiang Wu1 Tsinghua University, Beijing, China National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 3 Georgia Institute of Tec
ISSCC 2019
Session 25
Hardware Security
A 562F2 Physically Unclonable Function with a Zero-Overhead Stabilization Scheme
Internet of Things (IoT) devices bring a growing demand for secure, low-power, and low-cost secret key and ID storage solutions. Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) are one of the most promising alternatives to conven