Arteris has announced it has closed its previously announced acquisition of Cycuity, adding Cycuity’s semiconductor cybersecurity assurance technology to Arteris’ system intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Arteris says the deal is intended to help customers improve semiconductor security without risking system-on-chip (SoC) functionality, performance, or schedules.

The company frames the acquisition around a growing hardware-layer threat surface, noting that silicon vulnerabilities can compromise systems and expose unprotected information. Arteris cites the US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which reports that new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) in hardware have increased by more than 15 times over the last five years. Arteris also points to artificial intelligence (AI) proliferation and chiplets as accelerants of this trend.

Arteris says combining its “system IP” with Cycuity’s “silicon hardware security assurance technology” is meant to address rising concerns around hardware security and increasing cyberattacks targeting data moving through semiconductors. It specifically calls out AI data centers as a target environment, alongside “a wide range of edge devices,” and says the combined offering is aimed at “secure on-chip data movement.”

In describing its broader portfolio, Arteris says it provides network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect IP, SoC software for integration automation, and hardware security assurance. The company says its products focus on optimizing on-chip data movement and reducing design complexity for “high-performance, power-efficient silicon” with built-in safety, reliability, and security.

Source: Arteris