The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $353,258 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado, to develop new abstract methods and an evaluation infrastructure for incorporating security metrics into hardware design. The 5-year project aims to help industry identify security challenges during hardware design and make informed tradeoffs between performance and security. Key deliverables include introducing a programming interface for specifying desired memory regions, creating abstract models to represent microarchitectural vulnerabilities, and expanding a widely-used performance evaluation tool to enable reasoning about security challenges. The research outcomes have the potential to improve the long-term security of computer hardware used in everyday applications.
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