SoC design: Secure your VLSI chip design from DPA and such attacks

It is increasingly becoming difficult to secure computer networks, mobile devices and embedded systems from unintended access. Well that is the challenge outside the semiconductor chip, there is also increase in risk of unauthorised access inside the chip too. All these years, VLSI design engineers have focused more on increasing functions, deeper integration, power consumption, speed and such performance related tasks. There is now a requirement of protecting complex SOC chips from security attacks. There is a need for designing VLSI circuits with multiple layers of protection. This gives an opportunity to VLSI design engineers to add the skill of "VLSI security". Here we provide some of the available information to start with: Companies and organisations involved in this area: The U.S.-based Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) has announced the launching of a new initiative on Trustworthy and Secure Semiconductors and Systems (T3S). To know more on this visit https://www.src.org/program/grc/t3s/ There is also an event named Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems , which covers security related research in hardware design. The company called Elliptic Technologies offering SoC security design services. It has published White papers on subjects such as Crypto processor, "Secret Key and Identity Management for System-on-Chip Architects"...