This company offers security verification software that analyzes hardware designs to identify vulnerabilities in chip-level systems. Their software helps companies test the physical components of devices to pinpoint hardware security bugs early in the development process.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Hardware vulnerabilities in chip designs and firmware can be exploited, causing irreparable damage to companies that build or rely on semiconductor technology. Traditional security verification methods often miss vulnerabilities at the microarchitecture and system-on-chip (SoC) levels.
Solution
Cycuity provides security verification for the hardware development lifecycle, identifying and mitigating hardware vulnerabilities that other techniques might miss. The company's Radix technology helps explore and visualize how information flows through a chip, create measurable security requirements, and monitor their effectiveness. Radix integrates with existing verification flows to identify and address security risks at every step of the hardware development lifecycle, from individual IP blocks to full systems, including software.
Target Audience
Cycuity's primary customers are companies in the data center, IoT, automotive, aerospace, and defense industries that require hardware security assurance for their semiconductor chips.
Features
- Security Function Exploration: Capability to explore and understand the behavior of security functions.
- Advanced Analysis Capabilities: Pinpoint and evaluate security weaknesses, along with effective methods for their mitigation.
- Performance Optimization: Simplified setup process coupled with a new visual interface, tailored for intuitive use, improves productivity and efficiency.
- Quantifiable Security Verification Coverage: A coverage metric for hardware security provides a quantifiable way to understand the completeness and efficacy of security verification.
- Creates a “security digital twin” of an IP block which can then be re-verified by an SoC integrator at the block and full chip levels to provide assurance of the third-party IP.
- Integrates automated security assurance at every step of the hardware development lifecycle.
- Integrates with existing verification flows.
- Supports compliance with industry-specific cybersecurity standards and regulations, such as ISO/SAE 21434 and UNECE #155.