Cyber-Physical Systems Security and Privacy

4 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MDAT.2017.2713356 Date of current version: 30 June 2017.  The focus of this issue of IEEE Design&Test is on cyber–physical systems security and privacy. Research in cyber–physical systems (CPS) has enjoyed a large increase over the past years. The same holds for security and privacy. Hence, combining both in a special issue is very appealing. And indeed this is what our guest editors provided to us: this special issue covers a wide area of researchand industry-relevant articles, among others, on side channels, lightweight encryption for Internet of Things, CPS comodeling, and anomaly detection. In addition, the guest editors have written a survey on the topic which, more precisely, is a survey on surveys and may help the interested reader to find a way through the jungle of literature on the topic out there already. In order to ease the search, they have provided a classification in CPS domains, attacks, defenses, research trends, network security, security level implementation, and computational strategies. Because of the relevance of the security topic, we will have future special issues to continue covering the very same topic. We have one general interest paper entitled “A Platform to Analyze DDR3 DRAM’s Power and Retention Time.” The authors explore the intrinsic tradeoff in a DRAM between the power consumption (due to refresh) and the reliability. Their unique platform allows tailoring to the design constraints depending on whether power consumption, performance, or reliability has the highest design priority. Continuing our successful series of tutorials, this issue has a tutorial entitled “Overview of 3-D Architecture Design Opportunities and Techniques” that explores 3-D integration. Another highlight of this issue is the perspective by Gabe Moretti on “Accellera’s Support for ESL Verification and Stimulus Reuse” about the cooperation between IEEE and Accellera in supporting the Universal Verification Standard. The Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference took place from 27 to 31 March in Lausanne, where the 20th edition was celebrated. Thanks to David Atienza and Giorgio di Natale for the coverage of the event and thanks to our Reports Editor Massimo Poncino. As always, the LastByte on “Practice Makes Perfect” is brought to us by Scott Davidson. Thanks to all who have contributed to this issue of IEEE Design&Test. If you have any questions or ideas please contact me at [email protected].  Cyber–Physical Systems Security and Privacy