Application Processors

Modern processors are the core to the powerful applications that power automobiles, data centers, and mobile phones. Their performance has grown dramatically over the last several years and have had unfortunate security side effects as a result. Modern processors have several security issues that need to be addressed, including:

• Microarchitectural Side Channels: Modern processors utilize highly parallel and speculative execution in order to boost performance. They also take advantage of caching and other mechanisms to retain state to further boost performance. These performance features can have negative security effects due to leakages that happen in the microarchitecture below the view of software. Radix is effective at detecting these microarchitectural side channels in order to help mitigate them.