Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security

Top Picks, Columnists, and Artists

.......Welcome to the 2012 Top Picks issue of IEEE Micro, featuring the best papers published at top Microrelated conferences in 2011. We moved Top Picks to the third issue of 2012 to allow more time for consideration of papers published late in 2011, such as at the Micro conference. Guest Editors Paolo Faraboschi and T.N. Vijaykumar have done an outstanding job in all facets of putting togethe...

Ten Years of Top Picks

.......This issue marks our tenth anniversary edition of Top Picks articles from the major microarchitecture-related conferences, a tradition started in 2003 by Pradip Bose at the start of his tenure as Editor in Chief, and an issue that I think has only grown in importance in the intervening years. Over the years, Top Picks published many great articles. This year’s edition contains 11 more, a...

Hardware Security Modules for Embedded Systems

Being able to trust another IT system that “it always acts as expected” requires consecutive trust into all layers, which are involved in creating a trustworthy IT system. Figure 1 depicts the “pyramid of trust” for a typical IT system, where trust into the whole IT system requires that each layer can rely on the effective security of its underlying layer without being able to verify it directl...

Top Picks from the 2012 Computer Architecture

......In recent years, information technology (IT) has been witnessing major transformations placing unprecedented demands on efficient processing, communication, and storage of data. These transformations are driven by both the slowdown in energy efficiency in modern circuits and fabrication technologies and by the emergence of ‘‘big data’’ requiring not only higher efficiency in manipulating ...

Thoughts on the Top Picks Selections