William Robinson
Location: (Nashville, TN)
Personal Research Web Page: http://www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~robinswh/
Keywords: Soft errors in microprocessors, Computer architecture design, Very Large Scale Integrated circuit (VLSI) design, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), Embedded computing, Secure hardware platforms, Reconfigurable architectures
Posted on: Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Broad Research Area: Hardware / Architecture, Information Assurance / Security / Privacy / Cryptography, Mobile / Ubiquitous / Embedded Computing
Research Interests:
My research explores hardware and software tradeoffs to improve system performance, system reliability, and system security. The use of digital integrated circuits (ICs) for mission-critical, safety, defense, and communication applications has highlighted the need for enhanced reliability and improved security. As fabrication technology advances, digital ICs will become more vulnerable to soft errors from strikes by ionized particles. However, mitigation strategies that focus only upon devices or logic gates will consume excessive amounts of area and power, and could limit performance. At the same time, there is a constant threat of hardware and software tampering through malicious activity. Inherent architectural vulnerabilities must be removed to reduce the probability of a successful attack. My current work includes: (1) hardware synthesis techniques to mitigate soft errors in the microarchitecture and (2) detection of hardware trojans in fabricated circuits.
Contact Information:
William H. Robinson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Vanderbilt University
VU Station B #351824
2301 Vanderbilt Place
Nashville, TN 37235-1824
Work: (615) 322-1507
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