Secure Hardware Design
6.5950 · Electrical Engineering and Computer Science · Graduate, Undergraduate · Spring 2025
Prof. Mengija Yan
<p>MIT’s Secure Hardware Design Class (6.5950/6.5951) is an open-source course that teaches students both how to attack modern CPUs and how to design architectures resilient to those attacks. Students gain hands-on experience hacking real processors and are taught various state-of-the-art hardware attacks and defenses.</p> <p>Secure Hardware Design is the culmination of years of effort by Prof. Yan and a team of students. The course philosophy involves three pillars—Think, Play, Do:</p> <ul> <…
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