Cycuity, Inc., a leader in hardware security solutions, announced the launch of Radix-ST on August 28, 2025, a new addition to its Radix portfolio. This tool leverages static analysis to identify and resolve security weaknesses in chip designs early in the development cycle, enhancing efficiency and reducing costs.
Product: Radix-ST, a static security analysis tool for hardware design.
Purpose: Identifies vulnerabilities early using RTL source code, no simulation needed.
Key Feature: Maps weaknesses to MITRE’s Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE).
Benefits: Complements Radix-S (simulation) and Radix-M (emulation) for comprehensive security.
Efficiency: Detects issues dynamic methods miss, reducing costs and time.
Testimonial: Booz Allen Hamilton praises early verification capabilities.
With increasing complexity in semiconductor designs and rising cyber threats, Radix-ST enables proactive vulnerability detection. Unlike dynamic tools like Radix-S and Radix-M, Radix-ST requires only Register Transfer Level (RTL) source code, allowing security analysis from the earliest design stages. “Radix-ST offers an effective static security analysis solution that complements our Radix-S and Radix-M products,” said Mitch Mlinar, Vice President of Engineering at Cycuity.
Radix-ST processes RTL code to generate detailed reports pinpointing security weaknesses, their locations, and mappings to MITRE’s CWE database. This goes beyond basic linting by focusing on deep security issues, integrating seamlessly into Cycuity’s Radix workflow. It detects vulnerabilities like key leakage, incorrect data flows, and microarchitectural flaws (e.g., Spectre, Meltdown) that are harder to identify with dynamic methods.
“Using Radix-ST, we have been able to start our security analysis very early in our verification cycles,” said Mark Labbato, Senior Lead Engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton. This capability allows teams to address issues before simulation environments are fully operational, improving productivity and focus on critical design areas.
Radix-ST strengthens Cycuity’s portfolio, covering over 80% of hardware CWEs, and supports compliance with standards like ISO/SAE 21434. By enabling early detection, it minimizes costly late-stage fixes, aligning with the industry’s shift toward “secure by design” principles.
Cycuity’s Radix-ST empowers semiconductor teams to build secure chips from the ground up, addressing the urgent need for robust hardware security in an era of evolving threats.
Cycuity is a pioneer in hardware security delivering security assurance for semiconductor devices, a rapidly increasing target for remote cyberattacks. Cycuity’s innovative Radix software products and services specify, integrate and verify security across the hardware development lifecycle to ensure robust protection for the chips powering today’s sophisticated electronic systems. Radix uncovers security weaknesses across all levels, from block and subsystem to full system-on-chip (SoC) and firmware, enabling our customers to identify and resolve risks prior to manufacturing. Serving both commercial and defense industries, Cycuity provides the broadest security assurance across the design supply chain.
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