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CRYSTALS-Dilithium post-quantum cyber-secure SoC for wired communications in critical systems
This research proposes a concept-proof ASIC semiconductor device design and implementation using 65 nm Ultra-Deep Submicron (UDSM) technology. This experimental SoC incorporates an energy-efficient RISC-V CPU and includes typical peripheral components commonly utilized in IIoTs.
First publication date: 12/01/2026
A novel concept-proof semiconductor implementation that fulfill the requirements in terms of power-consumption, resources utilization and PQC security level for Industrial IoT applications. The presented research analyzes the resources required by a high-performance CRYSTALS-Dilithium implementation on IIoT SoC devices.
- The archi-tecture and implementation of RTL-based CRYSTALS-Dilithium IP are presented and discussed.
- System-on-Chip semiconductor device composed of a RISC-V CPU subsystem and the CRYSTALS-Dilithium IP is developed in the scope of this research as a concept-prof to evaluate the viability of integrating PQC on resource-constrained devices for IIoT.
