IIIT Kottayam Team Shines at DVCON India 2025 with Transformer-Based Intrusion Detection System on CDAC AT1051

At DVCON India 2025, Students and academics were given a good amount of space to display their talent and abilities in the semiconductor chip design space. Along with significant presence of this community, they were also given an opportunity to contest in a design challenge. In interaction with EEHerald, the top winner team demonstrated live project at the event. 

The team Shravan Narayan Sunil, Joel Dan Philip, Mukund Rath of IIIT Kottayam guided by Dr. Kala S have developed Transformer-Based Network Intrusion Detection System on CDAC AT1051. The system incorporates a C-based inference engine tailored for transformer models, complemented by a hardware accelerator that offloads matrix multiplication computations for faster inference. In a demonstration, the system processes malicious packets sent over Ethernet, classifying them as malicious or benign in approximately 6–7 seconds with the accelerator. In contrast, a CPU-only implementation without the accelerator exhibits significantly slower inference times, highlighting the accelerator’s vital role in boosting performance. This advancement demonstrates the synergy of advanced software and hardware for efficient, real-time network security solutions.

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