Keynote 2: Security in Semiconductor Manufacturing
Bernard Jit Heng Lim · 2021
Summary form only given, as follows. The complete presentation was not made available for publication as part of the conference proceedings. In our everyday life today, semiconductor plays a particularly important role. One could consider that most of our daily use devices will have semiconductor devices in it. For one instance, it could just be used as a simple device to turn on and off our light switch, but it also may play an important role in devices that keeps people alive. More so now, when we are talking about digitalization, our every day-to-day information has now been digitized and feedback into a centralize big data storage either physically or in the cloud. Another buzz word that has now play an important role is Internet of things, IoT. There is an increase in diversity and complexity of IoT applications that creates a lot of challenges in System on a Chip designers. One of the aspects that becomes crucial will be implementing security at the design phases, building hardware that incorporates hardened security features to ensure that devices are protected throughout their lifecycle from chip manufacturing to day-to-day deployment, to decommissioning. This presentation shares some of practices and challenges that are been used to ensure security hardening primarily in the hardware.