Security Opportunities in Nano Devices and Emerging Technologies
Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Research in CMOS technology-based hardware security at higher levels of abstraction, such as circuit and architecture, has seen consistent growth over the past decade. But, the past several years have seen an uptick in research on the security of nano devices. To date, any discovery identifying certain devices or features in some devices to be suitable for improving security has been based on an understanding of the individual primitives or properties of those devices. The research community currently lacks both the capability to fully explain the effectiveness of existing techniques and the metrics to predict the security properties and vulnerabilities of the next generation of nano devices and systems. No standards exist in government and industry to theoretically or experimentally evaluate any new devices against a set of known metrics and examine their strengths and weaknesses against known attacks. Further, since security is not considered a primary objective during device development and modeling, today, most security techniques are developed after devices have reached a certain level of maturity. Thus, obtaining a high level of security in that stage can be extremely challenging and expensive. Security Opportunities in Nano Devices and Emerging Technologies addresses these gaps in the fundamental knowledge base by bringing active researchers in hardware security and nanoelectronics areas together to provide an in-depth analysis of various security issues and to explain how nano devices and their unique properties can address them. This book includes contributions from experts in logic and memory devices life resistive memory elements, PCM, and silicon nanowire devices, as well as emerging architectures and system like 2.5/3D architectures and memory architectures for neuromorphic computing. This book is composed of two major sections: Section I, Nano and Emerging Devices, focuses on nano devices and building security primitives from them. The target devices include nano CMOS, CNTs, nanowires, PCMs, resistive RAM, and memristors. Emerging Technologies and Architectures, Section II, focuses on emerging technologies and integrations that include 2.5D structures, 3D structures, biochips, and neuromorphic computing. Security Opportunities in Nano Devices and Emerging Technologies serves as an invaluable reference for students, researchers, and practitioners in the area of nanoelectronics and hardware security. Book jacket.