On-Demand Webinar: Reducing Cost & Risk with Inspector Pre-Silicon Side Channel Analysis (SCA)

About the Webinar

Modern chips increasingly rely on cryptography—but side-channel leakage can still undermine even “correct” implementations. Traditionally, side-channel analysis (SCA) is performed post-silicon, once hardware is available. While effective, post-silicon testing often comes late in the lifecycle, making fixes expensive, timelines tight, and risk harder to manage.

In this webinar, we’ll introduce Inspector Pre-Silicon Side-Channel Analysis, a shift-left approach that helps teams identify and quantify leakage earlier—before tape-out and lab setup constraints. We’ll start with a brief Side-Channel 101 refresher, then recap common post-silicon techniques and the pain points pre-silicon is designed to address. From there, we’ll walk through the pre-silicon methodology, what metrics it provides, and where it can be applied across the chip design lifecycle.

In this Webinar, we'll Cover: 

1. Side-channel 101 

- Recap of what a side-channel is and why side-channel attacks are powerful tool in an attacker's arsenal for compromising cryptographic systems.

2. Brief overview of post-silicon testing 

- Why post-silicon testing is performed, and the basic techniques employed.

- Pain points (what is the problem pre-silicon aims to solve?)

3. Value/benefits of performing side-channel testing pre-silicon

- Overview of pre-silicon methodology 

- What information/metrics the analysis provides userWhen in the chip design lifecycle analysis can be applied.

- Why pre-silicon addresses the pain points of post-silicon testing

- New use cases only available with pre-silicon analysis

4. Who can benefit from pre-silicon SCA? 

- Security teams

- Chip design and verification teams

- Certification schemes (ex. OCP SAFE Level 3)

- Academic researchers

5. Live Demo of Inspector Pre-Silicon SCA.

6. Conclusions and future directions