AI-Era SoC Cybersecurity starts with secure-by-construction data movement
Modern SoC cybersecurity depends on a secure-by-construction solution to reduce unintended access paths, limit debug exposure, and provide evidence-based assurance early enough to avoid late redesigns and field risk.
Overview
Built-in security capabilities with scalable validation
Semiconductor cybersecurity assurance is becoming critical to all types of chip designs, as the threat landscape has expanded to the hardware layer. Silicon vulnerabilities can result in compromised systems exposing unprotected information, a trend accelerated by the proliferation of AI and chiplets.
Additionally, the volume of sophisticated cyberattacks is increasing, targeting the vast amounts of unsecured data moving through semiconductors, from AI data centers to a wide range of edge devices and physical AI.
As the threat landscape expands into hardware, teams need more than isolated security features. They need security capabilities built into the SoC, as well as repeatable, scalable methods to validate secure behavior across IP blocks, subsystems, chiplets, and full SoCs running with the firmware.
Governmental bodies and industry stakeholders are recognizing the escalating threats posed by cyberattacks and unauthorized access to sensitive information through electronic devices. Some of the key cybersecurity standards that apply to semiconductors include ISO/SAE 21434, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Regulation No. 155, ISA/IEC 62443, Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), Radio Equipment Directive (RED), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Hardware Bill of Materials (HBOM), Hardware Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE™), Chips and Sciences Act, and others.
Arteris delivers a secure-by-construction approach to SoC cybersecurity by providing:
- Network-on-chip IP with security features to enable secure underlying data movement.
- SoC integration automation to help teams reduce errors which can lead to vulnerabilities.
- Security assurance to help teams explore, monitor and verify security weaknesses.
Arteris provides end-to-end SoC cybersecurity design and verification solutions, including NoC IP and hardware security assurance software, that address today’s security concerns. By uncovering security weaknesses across IP block, subsystems, chiplets, and SoCs running firmware, customers can identify and resolve hardware security risks before manufacturing.
Advantages
Scale security across integration, complexity, and lifecycle demands
Secure data movement
Enforce least-privilege connectivity and reduce unintended access paths across on-chip traffic flows.
Pre-silicon security assurance
Identify and address hardware security weaknesses before manufacturing, when fixes are less costly and less disruptive.
Data confidentiality and integrity
Prevent unauthorized access and tampering of critical design assets. minimizing the risk of data exposure.
Resilience and integrity
Maintain trustworthy operation under stress, noise, and fault conditions so security controls remain effective.
Integration automation and traceability
Reduce human error and integration drift that can silently invalidate security assumptions as designs evolve.
Technical Benefits
Enforce, validate, and sustain secure SoC behavior with world-class technology
Policy enforcement at the fabric level
Apply access intent directly within the on-chip interconnect so security controls are enforced where traffic is routed, not retrofitted later in software.
Predictable behavior under contention
Use deterministic arbitration and quality of service (QoS) mechanisms to reduce contention-driven jitter that can undermine both performance guarantees and security assumptions.
Controlled observability and debug exposure
Maintain essential visibility during development, while reducing production attack surface through lifecycle-aware control of debug, trace, and telemetry paths.
Integrity protection for data in motion and storage
Detect and contain corruption events using error detection and correction mechanisms so compromised data does not silently propagate across the system.
Assurance across integration boundaries
Validate secure behavior consistently from IP blocks and subsystems to chiplets, full SoCs, and firmware.
Cybersecurity without schedule disruption
Improve microelectronics security posture without sacrificing functionality, performance, or delivery timelines by identifying and addressing weaknesses early in the design cycle.
Arteris Cycuity Radix: Hardware Security Assurance
The Cycuity Radix suite helps customers discover potential cybersecurity risks in semiconductor hardware and firmware during the design phase, enabling data-driven sign-off decisions.
It covers:
- Early potential security weaknesses detection via static analysis
- IP, sub-system, and chiplet simulation to detect and remedy potential vulnerability risks
- SoC and firmware emulation to detect and remedy system-level vulnerability risks
Products for cybersecurity
Applications
Secure-by-construction approaches are applied across modern SoC deployment environments
Aerospace and Defense
Enterprise Computing Data Centers
Protect high-value internal data flows and enforce isolation across shared compute, memory, and accelerator fabrics operating at large scale in data centers, including in multi-die SoC [link], where privacy and data security are paramount.
Automotive
Industrial Automation and Robotics
Consumer Electronics
