Microelectronics Security

Security Built into the Silicon.

A comprehensive microelectronics security platform that protects against threats to the semiconductor supply chain.

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Design to Silicon
security across the full device lifecycle
Navy SBIR
origins in funded national security research
Patented
analysis, with a growing portfolio

The Problem

New microelectronic devices move through a complicated, global, design-and-implementation supply chain.

A malicious inclusion or latent vulnerability can enter at any step, undetected by the conventional formal verification methods most design teams and OEMs rely on. In safety-critical systems, from defense to medical devices, a compromised chip is a compromised mission.

The Solution

Achilles protects microelectronic devices from malicious inclusions and cyber vulnerabilities. It reveals exposures across the semiconductor design-and-implementation supply chain that elude conventional detection, characterizing what can go wrong, where it can go wrong, and how it can go wrong. Our end-to-end, single-platform solution is predictive and future-proof.

Achilles identifies attack targets that are invisible to formal verification methods, lets designers characterize and harden a device before tape-out, and determines where and what kind of on-chip instruments would best protect it. Its AI-powered security assistant, Tordra, automates the selection, creation, and insertion of those surveillance instruments. The result is a provably cyber-hardened design that delivers real-time alerts, diagnostics, and remediation strategies.

Built with support from a U.S. Navy Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) grant and backed by a growing patent portfolio, Achilles is the industry's only security solution that addresses threats across the full lifecycle: from design to fabrication to in-field deployment.

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Credentials

✓Built with U.S. Navy SBIR support
✓Patented attack-surface analysis, portfolio growing
✓Design for Security and Trust (DFST) methodology
✓For safety-critical systems: defense, infrastructure, automotive, healthcare

Supply Chain Protection

From Design to Deployment

How Achilles hardens a device across its entire lifecycle.

  1. STEP 1
    IlluminateA knowledge graph-based analysis uncovers semiconductor device vulnerabilities that verification methods miss
  2. STEP 2
    CharacterizeVulnerabilities are classified and ranked by severity, providing an objective metric that reliably benchmarks operational resilience and risk exposure
  3. STEP 3
    InstrumentTordra selects, creates, and inserts on-chip surveillance instruments against malicious tampering
  4. STEP 4
    MonitorContinuous in-field ML-based anomaly detection, with real-time alerts and remediation
Hardened by design · Monitored in the field

Methodology and Flow

Cyberhardening at RTL Level

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Achilles: Achilles maps the attack surface as an inference graph and reports vulnerabilities by type and severity, linked back to the RTL source.
Achilles maps the attack surface as an inference graph and reports vulnerabilities by type and severity, linked back to the RTL source. View full size ↗
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Achilles: Tordra, the GenAI security assistant, generates and inserts on-chip monitor, trojan, and trigger instruments from a prompt.
Tordra, the GenAI security assistant, generates and inserts on-chip monitor, trojan, and trigger instruments from a prompt. View full size ↗
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Achilles: The Design for Security and Trust flow: a cybersecurity evaluation and signoff loop, from the RTL model through to real-time hardware monitoring.
The Design for Security and Trust flow: a cybersecurity evaluation and signoff loop, from the RTL model through to real-time hardware monitoring. View full size ↗

How It Works

Key Capabilities

  • Patented attack-surface analysisA knowledge-graph approach classifies and ordinally ranks vulnerabilities, illuminating the threat surface in a new way.
  • Targets invisible to verification methodsAchilles finds attack targets that formal verification alone will not reveal, extending visibility across the whole design.
  • Tordra, the AI security assistantAchilles' AI-powered assistant automates the selection, creation, and insertion of on-chip surveillance instruments.
  • Anomaly detection, on-chip and at-speedML-based detection identifies manipulations in-system, in real time, for swift exposure and response.
  • Reconfigurable tamper protectionScalable, reconfigurable protection against malicious tampering, hardened into the design itself.
  • Design to disposal, one platformA single solution covers the full lifecycle: secure-by-design analysis and in-field monitoring.

How We Compare

Traditional Verification vs. Achilles

Traditional VerificationAchilles
Stimulus limited and never 100% completePatented analysis reveals the hidden attack surface
Manual, error-prone, expert-dependent hardeningTordra automates on-chip instrument insertion
Limited in scopeContinuous monitoring from design to disposal
No visibility at the silicon stageReal-time alerts, diagnostics, and remediation in the field
Several point tools, each limited in capacity or coverageOne predictive, future-proof, single-platform solution

Why It Wins

The Differentiator

Formal verification methods confirm that a design does what it's supposed to do; they aren't built to reveal what an adversary can exploit in the design. Achilles closes that gap: our patented analysis exposes more of the attack surface, AI-driven instrumentation hardens the silicon, and in-field monitoring keeps watch for the life of the device. It's the only solution that spans the full lifecycle, from design to disposal, built on patented, Navy-funded research.

Secure by DesignDevelopment to SiliconPatented AnalysisBorn from a Navy SBIR

Trust Every Chip.

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