David D. Hwang
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
George Mason University

Office: Science & Tech II, Room 229
Phone: (703) 993-9616
Fax: (703) 993-1601
Email: dhwang (at) gmu.edu
Web: http://mason.gmu.edu/~dhwang

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Journals

  1. A. Hodjat, L. Batina, D. Hwang, and I. Verbauwhede, "HW/SW co-design of a hyperelliptic curve cryptosystem using a microcode instruction set coprocessor," Integration, the VLSI Journal, Elsevier Press, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 45 - 51, January 2007. PDF

  2. P. Schaumont, D. Hwang, S. Yang, and I. Verbauwhede, "Multilevel design validation in a secure embedded system," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 55, no. 11, pp. 1380-1390, November 2006. PDF

  3. D. Hwang, K. Tiri, A. Hodjat, B. Lai, S. Yang, P. Schaumont, and I. Verbauwhede, "AES-based security coprocessor IC in 0.18-um CMOS with resistance to differential power analysis side-channel attacks," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 781-792, April 2006. PDF

  4. D. Hwang, P. Schaumont, K. Tiri, and I. Verbauwhede, "Securing embedded systems," IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 40-49, March-April 2006. PDF

  5. P. Schaumont, D. Hwang, and I. Verbauwhede, "Platform-based design for an embedded fingerprint authentication device," IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), vol. 24, no. 12, pp. 1929-1936, December 2005. PDF

  6. D. Hwang and I. Verbauwhede, "Design of portable biometric authenticators--energy, performance, and security tradeoffs," IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 1222-1231, November 2004. PDF

  7. D. Hwang, D. Fu, and A. N. Willson, Jr.,"A 400-MHz processor for the conversion of rectangular to polar coordinates in 0.25-um CMOS," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 38, no. 10, October 2003. PDF

Conferences
  1. B. Zhou and D. Hwang, "Implementations and optimizations of pipeline FFTs on Xilinx FPGAs," Proc. International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig), December 2008 [accepted].

  2. P. Schaumont and D. Hwang, "Turning liabilities into assets: exploiting deep submicron CMOS technology to design secure embedded circuits," Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 3178-3181, May 2008.

  3. D. Hwang, M. Chaney, S. Karanam, N. Ton, and K. Gaj, "Comparison of FPGA-Targeted Hardware Implementations of eSTREAM Stream Cipher Candidates," Proc. State of the Art of Stream Ciphers Workshop (SASC 2008), pp. 151-162, February 2008. PDF

  4. L. Batina, A. Hodjat, D. Hwang, K. Sakiyama, and I. Verbauwhede, "Reconfigurable architectures for curve-based cryptography on embedded micro-controllers," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), pp. 1-4, August 2006.

  5. I. Verbauwhede, K. Tiri, D. Hwang, and P. Schaumont, "Circuits and design techniques for secure ICs resistant to side-channel attacks," Proc. IEEE International Conference on IC Design and Technology (ICICDT), pp. 1-4, May 2006.

  6. D. Hwang, P. Schaumont, and I. Verbauwhede, "Multi-level design validation in a secure embedded system," Proc. IEEE International High Level Design Validation and Test Workshop, pp. 203-210, December 2005.

  7. A. Hodjat, L. Batina, D. Hwang, and I. Verbauwhede, "Hyperelliptic curve crypto coprocessor for an 8051 microcontroller," Proc. IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SIPS), pp. 93-98, November 2005.

  8. L. Batina, D. Hwang, A. Hodjat, and I. Verbauwhede, "Hardware/software co-design for hyperelliptic curve cryptography (HECC) on the 8051 microprocessor," Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), LNCS 3659, pp. 106-118, August 2005.

  9. K. Tiri, D. Hwang, A. Hodjat, B. Lai, S. Yang, P. Schaumont, and I. Verbauwhede, "Prototype IC with WDDL and Differential Routing - DPA Resistance Assessment," Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), LNCS 3659, pp. 354-365, August 2005.

  10. A. Hodjat, D. Hwang, B.C. Lai, K. Tiri, and I. Verbauwhede, "A 3.84 Gbits/s AES Crypto Coprocessor with Modes of Operation in a 0.18um CMOS Technology," ACM Great Lake Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), pp. 60-63, April 2005.

  11. K.Tiri, D. Hwang, A. Hodjat, B. Lai, S. Yang, P. Schaumont, and I. Verbauwhede, "A side-channel leakage free coprocessor IC in 0.18um CMOS for embedded AES-based cryptographic and biometric processing," Proc. ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 222-227, June 2005.

  12. K.Tiri, D. Hwang, A. Hodjat, B. Lai, S. Yang, P. Schaumont, and I. Verbauwhede, "AES-based cryptographic and biometric security coprocessor IC in 0.18-um CMOS resistant to side-channel power analysis attacks," Dig. IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, pp. 216-219, June 2005.

  13. A. Hodjat, D. Hwang, and I. Verbauwhede, "A scalable and high performance elliptic curve processor with resistance to timing attacks," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Information Technology (ITCC), pp. 538-543, April 2005.

  14. B. Lai, D. Hwang, S. Kim, and I. Verbauwhede, "Reducing radio energy consumption of key management protocols for wireless sensor networks," Proc. ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), pp. 351-356, August 2004.

  15. D. Hwang, B. Lai, and I. Verbauwhede, "Energy-memory-security tradeoffs in distributed sensor networks," Proc. International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless (ADHOC-NOW), Springer LNCS 3158, pp. 70-81, July 2004.

  16. P. Schaumont, K. Sakiyama, Y. Fan, D. Hwang, B. Lai, A. Hodjat, S. Yang, and I. Verbauwhede, "Testing ThumbPod: softcore bugs are hard to find," Proc. IEEE International High Level Design Validation and Test Workshop (HLDVT), pp. 77-82, November 2003.

  17. D. Hwang, P. Schaumont, Y. Fan, A. Hodjat, B.C. Lai, K. Sakiyama, S. Yang, and I. Verbauwhede,"Design flow for HW / SW acceleration transparency in the ThumbPod secure embedded system," Proc. ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 60-65, June 2003.

  18. K. Sakiyama, P. Schaumont, D. Hwang, and I. Verbauwhede, "Teaching trade-offs in system-level design methodologies," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics Systems Education (MSE), pp. 62-63, June 2003.

  19. D. Hwang, D. Fu, and A. N. Willson, Jr., "A 400-MHz processor for the efficient conversion of rectangular to polar coordinates in 0.25-um CMOS," Dig. IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, pp. 248-251, June 2002.

  20. D. Hwang, C. Mittelsteadt, and I. Verbauwhede, "Low power showdown: comparison of five DSP platforms implementing an LPC speech codec," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 1125-1128, May 2001.

Book Contributions
  1. Benchmarking DSP architectures for low power applications
    D. Hwang, C. Mittelsteadt, I. Verbauwhede
    Chapter in The Application of Programmable DSPs in Mobile Communications
    A. Gatherer, E. Auslander (Eds.) John Wiley & Sons, 2001
    Copy of book: Amazon.com

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