Abstract: The present disclosure relates to apparatuses and methods for memory management and more particularly to a memory device structured with internal analogic measurement mode features. The memory is provided with means for detecting a correct generation of voltage and/or current reference values in the memory device including at least a memory array and a memory controller. The method provides for a JTAG interface in the memory controller and an analogic measurement block in said memory device driven by said JTAG interface.

Abstract: An electric vehicle charging station system having, at least: an EV charging station that includes a supply part configured to supply electric energy to at least one vehicle battery, a computing device configured to manage supplying of electric energy to electric vehicles, and a transactions module of a station application stored in and executable by the computing device of the EV charging station. The transactions module and other modules of or associated with the EV charging station or an electric vehicle can leverage asymmetric cryptography and peer-to-peer networks and systems to provide secure supplying of electric energy from the EV charging station to an electric vehicle and recording of information on the station supplying electric energy to the vehicles.

Abstract: Secure vehicular communication is described herein. An example apparatus can include a processor and a vehicular communication component. The vehicular communication component can be configured to generate a vehicular private key and a vehicular public key, provide the vehicular public key to a plurality of external communication components wherein each respective one of the plurality of external communication components is positioned on a different transportation assistance entity, provide data to at least one of the plurality of external communication components, receive, in response to providing the data, additional data from the at least one of the plurality of external communication components, wherein the additional data is encrypted using the vehicular public key, and decrypt the additional data using the vehicular private key.

Abstract: A method and apparatus according to the invention can include energizing a wireless communication device coupled to a processor of a vehicular entity thus establishing a secure channel or communication area around the vehicular entity; exchanging information and data with other vehicular entities entering the established channel or communication area; regulating some vehicle parameters of said vehicular entity for driving the departure and/or travelling of the vehicular entity according to the received information and data.

Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for managing a platoon of autonomous vehicles. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising establishing a network connection between a plurality of autonomous vehicles, the plurality of autonomous vehicles operating as a platoon; receiving a request from a first autonomous vehicle to deviate from the platoon, the request comprising a digitally signed message from the first autonomous vehicle; assigning the first autonomous vehicle as a second master autonomous vehicle; permanently recording the assignment in a blockchain data structure; instantiating a new platoon path using the first autonomous vehicle as a head of the new platoon path; and disconnecting one or more autonomous vehicles associated with the new platoon path upon determining that the new platoon path is stable, the disconnecting causing the second master autonomous vehicle to manage the one or more autonomous vehicles using a second blockchain stored on the second master autonomous vehicle.

Abstract: System and techniques for a secure wireless lock-actuation exchange are described herein. After receiving a request to actuate a lock from a device, a controller can calculate a challenge counter and then perform verification iterations until an end condition is met—which is a failure of a verification iterations or the number of iterations reaches the challenge count. If the verification iterations reach the challenge count (e.g., there are no failed iterations), then the controller actuates the lock. Each iteration includes an exchange between the device and the controller that the device validates by signing a message with a private key shared by the device and the controller. The exchange also includes a freshness value integrated into the device validation to prevent replay attacks.

Abstract: Executable code is part of an over-the-air (OTA) update received by, for example, a computing device in a vehicle. In one example, the update is a secure over-the-air (SOTA) update of software that is stored in firmware of a vehicle component (e.g., firmware stored in memory of a storage device or a boot device that are mounted in a vehicle).

Abstract: Content within a memory device (e.g., a DRAM) may be secured in a customizable manner. Data can be secured and the memory device performance by be dynamically defined. In some examples, setting a data security level for a group of memory cells of a memory device may be based, at least in part, on a security mode bit pattern (e.g., a flag, flags, or indicator) in metadata read from or written to the memory device. Some examples include comparing a first signature (e.g., a digital signature) in metadata to a second value (e.g., an expected digital signature) to validate the first value in the metadata. The first value and the second value can be based, at least in part, on the data security level. Some examples include performing a data transfer operation in response to validation of the first and/or second values.

Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for remotely managing computing devices using blockchain and DICE-RIoT. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising scanning a network to obtain a list of devices on the network; classifying the devices as either controlled or uncontrolled devices; establishing a secure channel with the controlled devices; issuing one or more control commands to the controlled devices over the secure channel, the one or more control commands included within a signed message, the signed message signed using a private key of the sender and verified using a public key of the receiver, the private key and public key generated during the establishing of the secure channel; receiving a response to the control commands; and logging the control commands and the response in a blockchain.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes secure device communication. An embodiment includes a processing resource, a memory, and a network management device communication component configured to, send public information to a network attached device communication component, and receive a network attached device public key and an encrypted random string value from the network attached device communication component. The network attached device public key and the random string value are received independent of a type of the network attached device communication component due to the public information. The network management communication component is further configured to decrypt the random string value from the network attached device communication component and send, to the network attached device communication component, a message and a signature to authenticate independent of the type of the network attached device communication component due to the public information.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for projecting images and/or video data through the head lights of vehicles, especially head lights of assisted driving vehicles. The apparatus comprises: an entertainment system; a head light having at least a Digital Light Processing (DLP) unit integrated therein; a control unit configured to receive images and video data from the entertainment system and control the DLP unit to project at least an image and/or a video content through the head light.

Abstract: An example memory device with an improved sensing structure including a memory array comprising a plurality of sub-arrays of memory cells and structured in memory blocks, sense amplifiers coupled to the memory cells, and modified JTAG cells coupled in parallel to the outputs of the sense amplifiers and serially interconnected in a scan-chain structure integrating a JTAG structure and the sense amplifiers. In the example memory device, the scan-chain structures associated to each sub array are interconnected to form a unique chain as a boundary scan register. Further, in the example memory device, the boundary scan register is a testing structure to test interconnections of the sense amplifiers.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for block chain validation of memory commands. An embodiment includes a memory, and circuitry configured to receive a command that is included in a block in a block chain for validating commands to be executed on the memory, wherein the command includes an anti-replay portion that is based on a previous command included in a previous block in the block chain, validate the command using the anti-replay portion of the command, and execute the command on the memory upon validating the command.

Abstract: A vehicle having a plurality of application boards connected to a storage device via a bus, such as a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCI Express or PCIe) bus. The storage device presents on the bus a plurality of virtual storage devices via virtualization of a set of resources of the storage device (e.g., in accordance with Single Root Input/Output Virtualization (SR-IOV) or Multi Root Input/Output Virtualization (MR-IOV)). The virtual storage devices are assigned to the plurality of application boards respectively. The bus and/or the storage device facilitates communications among the plurality of application boards and resource sharing.

Abstract: Various examples are directed to systems and methods for managing a memory system. The memory system may generate a first encrypted physical address using a first clear physical address. The memory system may generate a first encrypted logical-to-physical (L2P) pointer indicating the first logical address and a first encrypted physical address. The memory system may send the first encrypted L2P pointer to a host device for storage at a host memory.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to copying data in a memory system with an artificial intelligence (AI) mode. An apparatus can receive a command indicating that the apparatus operate in an artificial intelligence (AI) mode, a command to perform AI operations using an AI accelerator based on a status of a number of registers, and a command to copy data between memory devices that are performing AI operations. The memory system can copy neural network data, activation function data, bias data, input data, and/or output data from a first memory device to a second memory device, such that that the first memory device can use the neural network data, activation function data, bias data, input data, and/or output data in a first AI operation and the second memory device can use the neural network data, activation function data, bias data, input data, and/or output data in a second AI operation.

Abstract: Devices and techniques for replay protection nonce generation are described herein. A hash, of a first length, can be produced from a first input. A first subset of the hash can be extracted as a selector. A second subset of the hash can be selected using the selector. Here, the second subset has a second length that is less than the first length. The second subset can be transmitted as a nonce for a freshness value in a replay protected communication.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes secure device coupling. An embodiment includes a processing resource, memory, and a network management device communication component configured to, identifying a network attached device within a first domain. Generating a domain device secret corresponding to the first domain. Each network attached device within the first domain can share the same domain device secret. Coupling iterations may be performed for each device within the first domain can include: generating a network management device private key and public key. Providing, via short-range communication, the network management device public key and the domain device secret to a network attached device communication component included in each network attached device of the first domain.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to an artificial intelligence accelerator in memory. An example apparatus can include a number of registers configured to enable the apparatus to operate in an artificial intelligence mode to perform artificial intelligence operations and an artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator configured to perform the artificial intelligence operations using the data stored in the number of memory arrays. The AI accelerator can include hardware, software, and or firmware that is configured to perform operations associated with AI operations. The hardware can include circuitry configured as an adder and/or multiplier to perform operations, such as logic operations, associated with AI operations.

Abstract: A data transmitter is disclosed. The data transmitter includes a digest generator configured in response to receiving a set of data from a data source to generate a digest from the set of data using a cryptographic primitive. The data transmitter further includes a packet generator configured to generate a series of one or more packets carrying the set of data for transmission, wherein each packet in the series includes a header, the set of data, a footer and the digest.