Secure Hardware and Embedded Devices

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Integrate security as a design metric i.e. design secure-by-construction approach
• Explain the Principles Of Trusted Computing
• Explain the IoT Security Challenges and Defense Mechanisms
• Describe the vulnerabilities in current Digital System Design Flow

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Use industry standard tools to design secure systems

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• State of the art technologies in secure hardware and embedded devices
• The security threats facing hardware and computing devices

1.Introduction

2.Vulnerabilities in Current Digital System Design Flow

3.Hardware Trojans

4.Counterfeit Electronics: Detection and Prevention

5.Principles of Trusted Computing

6.Cryptographic Primitives

7.Random Number Generators

8.Physically Unclonable Functions

9.IoT Security: Challenges and Defense Mechanisms

The module will be taught using a combination of lectures and labs.

Laboratory sessions are scheduled in the labs on level 2 of the Zepler building

Length of each session: 3 hours

Number of sessions completed by each student: 6

Max number of students per session: unlimited

Demonstrator:student ratio: 1:8

Preferred teaching weeks: 3 to 9

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.