Secure digital integrated circuit (IC) with physical root of trust - ON-914

Project type: Innovation
Desired discipline(s): Engineering - computer / electrical, Engineering, Computer science, Mathematical Sciences
Company: Low Power Futures Inc
Project Length: Flexible
Preferred start date: 04/01/2024
Language requirement: English
Location(s): Toronto/Markham/GTA, ON, Canada
No. of positions: 1
Desired education level: Master's
Open to applicants registered at an institution outside of Canada: Yes

About the company: 

At Low Power Futures, we are passionate about RISC-V and provide a wide range of secure Silicon IP cores to accelerate its adoption.

Our secure solutions are extremely competitive, power efficient, and are ready for the Post Quantum era. We focus on Automotive, IoT, Computing and Edge types of applications on RISC V.

Low Power Futures founders have a very deep and rich experience in semiconductors coming from renowned High-Tech companies such as AMD, Intel and Synopsys.

For more information about Low Power Futures, please visit https://lowpowerfutures.com/

Describe the project.: 

This project is about identifing, extracting and using Digital Integrated Circuits characteristics for unique identification purposes. The goals of the project are to build, test and productize a Root of Trust semiconductor Intellectual Properties IP (HW/Software) to IC companies and OEMs. Our innovations go through a development stage where the solution is implemented and extensively simulated using EDA and circuit simulation tools, then prototyped and tested on an FPGA for emulation and prototyped and tested on an IC or ASIC.

Required expertise/skills: 

Knowledge of HDL and EDA simulation tools, verification and testbench, circuit simulation tools

Optional: understanding of symetric and asymetric cryptography