Arteris is deepening its collaboration with Arm in a bid to harness next generation CPU designs against emerging security threats. Arteris and Arm have expanded their partnership around Cycuity Radix, Arteris’ hardware security assurance technology, after successful use on select Arm CPU projects.
Arm’s engineering teams are now rolling out the methodology across additional next generation processor programs to help spot and mitigate security weaknesses earlier in the design cycle, with the goal of delivering more robust and resilient CPU products.
Under the expanded agreement, Arm will continue to embed Cycuity Radix into its security assurance workflows, using it to drive systematic security verification and analysis across critical CPU architectures and performance features.
By mapping security relevant design combination and highlighting potential attack surfaces, the tool gives Arm clearer visibility into where vulnerabilities may appear and how they can be addressed more efficiently.
Importantly, Arm is not treating this as a post silicon checklist. Instead, the Cycuity Radix methodology is applied proactively inside the CPU design flow.
The process starts with architectural and micro architectural security risk assessments that identify critical assets and evaluate them against known threat models, forming a set of concrete security objectives. Those objectives are then enforced and checked using Radix properties.
Automation and cross CPU reuse of these security properties help keep the approach scalable across Arm’s portfolio. Potential issues can be surfaced early in development, when fixes can be implemented directly in the design, rather than relying on mitigations after products ship.
Leadership Comment
“Trusted compute is foundational to the next generation of AI, from agentic AI infrastructure in the data center to intelligent systems at the edge,” said Lyndon Fawcett, head of product security at Arm. “Through our work with Arteris, we are strengthening our security assurance processes across our CPU portfolio, helping ensure developers can deploy secure, high-performance, energy-efficient compute with greater confidence from cloud to edge.”
“Semiconductor cybersecurity is rapidly becoming a critical part of securing all our electronic systems, including AI data centers,” said K. Charles Janac, president and CEO of Arteris. “Arm is leading the way in secure compute by making security a core requirement across every CPU it ships. Leveraging Arteris technology, Arm is building more rigorous security assurance into CPU development at every level.”
Learn more about Arteris solutions for semiconductor cybersecurity, including the Cycuity Radix hardware product suite, at arteris.com/cybersecurity.
