Computer-aided design (CAD), in its quest to facilitate new design revolutions, is again on
the brink of changing its scope. Following both historical and recent technological and …

Several system-level operations trigger bulk data copy or initialization. Even though these
bulk data operations do not require any computation, current systems transfer a large …

Virtualization-based technologies have become ubiquitous in computing. While they provide
an easy-to-implement platform for scalable, high-availability services, they also introduce …

Cryptography plays an important role in computer and communication security. In practical
implementations of cryptosystems, the cryptographic keys are usually loaded into the …

Graphics processing units (GPUs) are important components of modern computing devices
for not only graphics rendering, but also efficient parallel computations. However, their …

Mobile-device theft and loss have reached gigantic proportions. Despite these threats,
today's mobile devices are saturated with sensitive information due to operating systems that …

Reliable on-off control of peripherals on smart devices is a key to security and privacy in
many scenarios. Journalists want to reliably turn off radios to protect their sources during …

Operating system kernel is the de facto trusted computing base for most computer systems.
To secure the OS kernel, many security mechanisms, eg, kASLR and StackGuard, have …

In existing systems, the off-chip memory interface allows the memory controller to perform
only read or write operations. Therefore, to perform any operation, the processor must first …

Security isolation is a foundation of computing systems that enables resilience to different
forms of attacks. This article seeks to understand existing security isolation techniques by …