Session 24 overview: Secure, efficient circuits for IoT: Technology directions subcommittee

While the Internet of Things (IoT) is a recent phenomenon in the consumer electronics market, such exciting developments are frequently the result of decades of microelectronics research presented at ISSCC. In this session we address the security and efficiency issues that must be addressed before IoT devices can be deployed in a ubiquitous manner. IoT devices require advanced security mechanisms that protect the private data contained within them from cryptanaiytic and physical attacks. This session includes four papers that present demonstrations of security, power and context-aware voice-activated circuitry, an emerging computing paradigm inspired by magnetic spin interactions, and a low power, low cost backplane interconnect.