Writing a Good Security Paper for ISSCC (2025)

TL;DR

This paper offers guidance on how to craft high-quality security research papers for ISSCC 2025, emphasizing the importance of hardware security in chip and system design.

Contribution

It provides insights and recommendations for authors to improve the quality and impact of security-related submissions to ISSCC, fostering growth in hardware security research.

Findings

Reviewed submissions as part of ISSCC Security Subcommittee

Identified key criteria for high-quality security papers

Encouraged increased focus on hardware security in conference submissions

Abstract

Security is increasingly more important in designing chips and systems based on them, and the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the leading conference for presenting advances in solid-state circuits and semiconductor technology, is committed to hardware security by establishing the security subcommittee since 2024. In the past two years, the authors of this paper reviewed submissions as members of the Security Subcommittee, a part of International Technical Program Committee (ITPC). This paper aims to encourage high-quality submissions to grow this field in the overall scope of the ISSCC.