Cybersecurity and aviation experts believe a growing number of commercial aircraft could be vulnerable to on board computers being hacked or taken over remotely by passengers with malicious intent.
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Rambus Aims DDR4 PHY at Data Centers
TORONTO – Rambus Inc. said it has developed the first production-ready 3200 Mbps DDR4 PHY available on Globalfoundries Inc.’s FX-14 ASIC platform using its power-performance optimized 14nm LPP process.
The Rambus R+ DDR4 PHY intellectual property uses Rambus’ proprietary R+ architecure, based on the DDR industry standard. The PHY is part of the Rambus’ suite of memory and SerDes interface offerings for networking and data center applications, said Frank Ferro, senior director of product management at Rambus. Meeting the performance and capacity demands of those segments are a heavy focus for the company, he said in a telephone interview with EE Times.
Is Computer Security Becoming a Hardware Problem?
To Kocher, this is a scaling problem. While the complexity of our machines increases exponentially, the development of new, reliable security schemes has not kept pace.
Rambus Prototypes 2x2mm Lens-Less Eye Tracker for Headmount Displays
PARIS—At last week’s VLSI Symposia, Rambus presented a poster titled “Lensless Smart Sensors: Optical and Thermal Sensing for the Internet of Things” in which the company not only detailed the underlying technology but also demonstrated a working sensor prototype. The Lensless Smart Sensors (LSS) rely on a phase anti-symmetric diffraction grating (either tuned for optical or IR thermal sensing) mounted directly on top of a conventional imaging array and co-designed with computational algorithms that extract the relevant information from the scene to be imaged. The grating is very thin and boasts a wide field of view, up to 120º, and the resulting imaging sensor is almost flat (only a few hundred micrometres separate the grating from the image sensor).
Rambus and Movimento team on personalized security for automotive
Rambus Inc. and Movimento are partnering to deliver secure, personalized over-the-air (OTA) vehicle updates critical to safety and performance in the era of the connected car.
Rambus is a specialist in digital security that provides a secure foundation for a connected world, and Movimento specializes in OTA software lifecycle and data management for the automotive/IoT sectors.
Movimento and Rambus are demonstrating the joint solution at TU-Automotive in Detroit. Visitors can see how the solution works on a live demo using a Dodge RAM truck in Movimento’s booth C67.
Can Rambus Hack Auto Cyber-Security?
MADISON, Wis. — Since last summer, automakers in Detroit have been losing sleep over two vexing issues: Over-the-Air (OTA) software/firmware updates and cyber-security for connected cars.
First, OTA is a big unknown to carmakers who have traditionally depended on service visits to dealerships for software updates. Only a few automakers have OTA update capabilities, and only Tesla can remotely update all safety-critical systems on its entire fleet.
