Their paper titled, “RECO-HCON: A High-Throughput Reconfigurable Compact ASCON Processor for Trusted IoT”, won the best paper award at 2022 IEEE 35th International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC).
Prof. Xinfei Guo and his co-author's paper titled "RECO-HCON: A High-Throughput Reconfigurable Compact ASCON Processor for Trusted IoT" received the best paper award at IEEE International System-on-Chip Conference held in Belfast, Northern Ireland. This work is in collaboration with Dr. Mohamed El Hadedy from CalPoly and Dr. Wen-mei Hwu from UIUC/Nvidia. Xinfei Guo's student Xiangdong Wei (who is now a PhD student at U of Michigan) is the co-first author. Sergiu Mosanu, an HPLP graduate student, and Zhengping Zhu helped with the ASIC part. In this work, we propose a flexible, reconfigurable, and energy-efficient crypto-processor running one of the LWC finalist candidates - ASCON, and pushed all the way from Chisel to final layout. To make it more accessible to the community, we also made it available in Skywater 130nm technology node with the latest released OpenLane design flow. Details can be found in our paper.