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ASIC SoC Security

Consulting & Design Services

Services for ASIC Design Houses

KiviCore helps ASIC design houses to navigate the complexity of hardware security with confidence. We offer expert consulting and hardware software co-design services to secure your platform from the ground up, leveraging mechanisms like secure boot, secure firmware update, Hardware Root of Trust (HRoT), and strong cryptographic services.

Outsourcing to KiviCore means

  • Expertise on demand
  • Predictable cost structures
  • No last-minute security blockers before tape-out

Why outsourcing instead of doing it in-house?

Security is complex

Cyber security is a highly specialized field with its own tools, standards, and mindset (e.g., threat modeling, side-channel protection, secure boot chains). Trying to handle it internally without proper knowledge can lead to critical security weaknesses.

Cost & resource efficiency

Building an in-house security team is expensive and only pays off if you are running multiple security-heavy projects per year. With KiviCore, you get high-end security expertise exactly when you need it without ongoing headcount costs.

Cutting-Edge Knowledge

Security is constantly evolving, just think about post-quantum cryptography, EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), ARM TrustZone architecture updates. KiviCore stays ahead so you don’t have to.

Faster time to market

By outsourcing, you skip the long ramp-up, training, or trial-and-error phases. You get proven methods and drop-in expertise that accelerate your path to secure, certifiable designs.

Services for secure ASICs/SoCs

ASIC-SoC

1

Analysis & Check

  • Definition of security goals and requirements
  • Analysis of existing SoCs & software security concepts and features
  • Compliance check & gap analysis of SoCs in relation to cybersecurity standards (e.g. CRA)
  • Consulting on PQC and classic cryptographic algorithms

2

Architecture & Concepts

  • Development of secure SoC concept & architecture & embedded software
  • Optimization of existing SoC security concepts
  • Consideration of IP cores & sub systems for secure data transmission, protocol implementations, or key handling e.g.  MACsec, IPsec, PQC, ARM Trust Zone

3

Design & Implementation

    • Analysis and evaluation of different implementation approaches
    • Integration of crypto primitive IP cores
    • Integration of security mechanisms 
      • Secure boot
      • Secure life cycle
      • Secure key exchange
      • Secure communication
      • Secure updates
      • Secure storage

4

Prototyping & Testing

  • Development of PoCs for security solutions
  • SoC-Design and firmware design
  • Carrying out threat analyses and simulation-based security tests
  • Verifying security-critical designs to ensure protection against side-channel attacks and other vulnerabilities