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Understanding the Security Landscape of Embedded Non-Volatile Memories: A Comprehensive Survey
T0 review · 4 major / 3 minor · reviewed 2026-08-07 · deepseek-v4-flash
Pith's one-line read This survey claims that the same physical features of embedded non-volatile memories that enable security primitives also expose those memories to a wide range of physical and logical attacks, and it maps that landscape across five memory…
desk verdict A useful but uneven eNVM security survey whose central attack table overstates at least one documented attack, and whose trend analysis is not reproducible. read the letter →
The pith
A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.
The reading
What carries the argument
The load-bearing mechanism is the dual use of the eNVM cell's physics: the exact properties that store data without power and supply entropy — data retention, high and asymmetric read/write currents, stochastic switching, and sensitivity to magnetic, electric, and thermal fields — are the channels through which the surveyed attacks operate. The organizational machinery is the two comparison tables: Table 1 maps each memory technology to published physically unclonable function (PUF, a chip-specific fingerprint from manufacturing variation), true random number generator (TRNG, a circuit that harvests physical randomness), and logic locking (a countermeasure that gates circuit behavior on a secret key) implementations, and Table 2 maps each technology to published side-channel, probing, fault-injection, row-hammer, information-leakage, denial-of-service, and thermal attacks. These tables turn a scattered literature into a grid on which both maturity and gaps are visible at a glance.
What would settle it
Take one row of Table 2 and check it against the cited original: for example, attempt the reported 15-trace differential power analysis key extraction from [71] on the commercial MRAM chip used in that study, or re-run the Section 5 publication counts with an explicit search query and compare the yearly totals. If the attack does not reproduce or the counts diverge materially, that part of the survey's claim fails.
Extended reading notes
Core claim
On the paper's own terms, its discovery is that eNVM security is a two-sided story with a common root. The non-volatility, asymmetric read/write currents, high write currents, and stochastic switching of these memories are what let PUFs and TRNGs generate entropy without storing keys on-chip; those same characteristics are what side-channel, probing, fault-injection, row-hammer, information-leakage, denial-of-service, and thermal attacks exploit. The paper supports that claim technology by technology: flash's thin tunnel oxide invites charge-injection faults, PCM's phase-change drift and analog resistance states enable both reconfigurable PUFs and thermal tampering, MRAM's magnetic tunnel junctions provide high-entropy switching but are flipped by magnetic fields, RRAM's conductive filaments and sneak-path currents give entropy and also create row-hammer and supply-noise channels, and FeRAM's data-dependent write currents enable power analysis. The paper concludes that the same features that enable eNVM applications also expose them to a wide range of physical and logical attacks, and it treats the absence of a published attack for a given memory as a gap in the literature, not as evidence of immunity.
Load-bearing premise
The load-bearing premise is that the 102 cited papers are accurately characterized and that the publication-database counts behind Figure 6 come from a representative search; if any cited attack or primitive is misdescribed, or the trend data are unrepresentative, the survey's conclusions weaken.
Editorial extensions
If this is right
- A designer choosing an eNVM for a secure product can use the tables to see which primitives have published demonstrations on which memory, and which attack classes already have countermeasure literature.
- Because the same properties create both entropy and leakage, eNVM-based PUFs and TRNGs should be assumed to need side-channel-hardened readout, not just good randomness metrics.
- The seven attack classes give security researchers a checklist for evaluating a new eNVM technology: for a new memory, each empty cell in Table 2 is a candidate demonstration, not a safety claim.
- The publication-trend analysis implies that security attention should follow the field's shift from flash toward RRAM and MRAM, which now receive the most research and also show the broadest documented attack surface.
- As eNVMs move into caches and in-memory computing, the survey's denial-of-service, information-leakage, and thermal categories become directly relevant to AI accelerators and secure processors.
Reading between the lines
- If the dual-use framing is right, an eNVM cell engineered for high-entropy PUF or TRNG behavior may be more leakage-prone through power and timing channels; the paper documents both sides but does not state this as a design trade-off.
- The survey's own caveat that absence of an attack does not imply immunity points to a concrete agenda: targeted fault-injection and thermal experiments on FeRAM, and probing studies on RRAM, are the rows with the largest room to move.
- Extending the map to non-volatile caches suggests that power-cycling or cold-start attacks on cached plaintext become realistic once SRAM and DRAM are replaced by eNVMs; the paper notes the risk but does not develop countermeasures at the cache level.
- The same leakage channels that enable side-channel attacks on RRAM matrix-vector multiplication also suggest covert channels inside processing-in-memory accelerators, since compute and memory share the same arrays and power grid.
Editorial analysis
A structured set of objections, weighed in public.
Referee Report
Summary. This survey maps the security landscape of embedded non-volatile memories (eNVMs). It reviews five technologies — flash, PCM, MRAM, RRAM, and FeRAM — from an architectural viewpoint, discussing why each is vulnerable. It then surveys eNVM-based security primitives (PUFs, TRNGs, logic locking) and a broad attack taxonomy (side-channel, probing, fault injection, rowhammer, information leakage, denial of service, and thermal attacks), summarized in Tables 1 and 2. It closes with a Web of Science-based publication-trend analysis and a timeline of NVM milestones. The central claim is that the same properties that make eNVMs useful for security applications also expose them to a wide range of physical and logical attacks.
Significance. If the taxonomy is reliable, the paper provides a useful and reasonably broad reference for researchers entering the eNVM security area. It compiles a large body of work across multiple memory technologies and connects device-level vulnerabilities to system-level attacks, which is valuable for structuring future research. The paper's summary tables are a particularly helpful contribution, and the inclusion of less-covered topics such as rowhammer on RRAM and thermal attacks is timely. The main limitation is that the survey's value depends on each table cell being backed by a source that actually demonstrates the listed primitive or attack; the PCM thermal-attack entry is a concrete case where this condition fails.
major comments (4)
- [Section 4.7, Table 2] The Thermal—PCM cell cites reference [94], but [94] (Boybat et al., IEDM 2021) is a temperature-sensitivity study of analog in-memory computing that contains no adversary model, no attack procedure, and no security claim. Section 4.7 itself hedges by calling the finding 'a potential attack surface,' yet Table 2 converts that hedge into a documented thermal attack on PCM. Because Table 2 is one of the two central summary artifacts of the survey, this misclassification overstates PCM's demonstrated attack surface and should be corrected, either by removing the cell or by marking it as a potential, not demonstrated, vulnerability.
- [Section 4.7, Table 2] The text states that 'almost all types of eNVMs are susceptible' to thermal attacks, but the Thermal row of Table 2 lists only PCM, RRAM, and MRAM, with no entry for FeRAM or Flash. The table's disclaimer says absence indicates underexplored literature, not immunity, but the inconsistency between the blanket text claim and the row entries should be resolved to avoid confusing readers about which technologies have documented thermal attack studies.
- [Section 2.2] The background on PCM states that the phase change occurs 'at a relatively low temperature of around 600°C.' For GST alloys used in PCM, the amorphous-to-crystalline transition typically occurs around 150–200°C, while roughly 600°C is closer to the melting point. This physical imprecision in a foundational technology description is noticeable in a survey that aims to explain architectural vulnerabilities.
- [Section 5, Figure 6] The publication-trend analysis is presented without the Web of Science search query, database version, inclusion/exclusion criteria, or any normalization of raw counts. As a stated contribution of the paper, the trend claims are therefore not reproducible, and it is unclear whether the counts reflect all publications on each technology or a particular topical subset. The authors should add a methodology paragraph or temper the claims accordingly.
minor comments (3)
- [References] References [1] and [12] are the same work (Khan and Ghosh, Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, 2021) and should be merged to avoid duplicate numbering.
- [Figure 2] The figure caption and text are inconsistent: the caption lists (a) STT-MRAM, (b) RRAM, (c) FeRAM, but the body text refers to Figure 2(c) for RRAM, and the figure itself appears to contain a duplicated FeRAM subfigure. This should be cleaned up.
- [Section 2.2] There is a typo in 'GeSbT ealloys' that should read 'GeSbTe alloys.'
Circularity Check
No significant circularity: the survey's claims rest on external literature, and the few self-citations are not load-bearing.
full rationale
This paper is a survey rather than a derivation chain. Its central claims—the five eNVM technologies, security primitives, and attack taxonomy in Tables 1 and 2—are explicitly presented as summaries of published studies, with each table cell tied to external references such as [15], [27], [47], [71], [77], [88], and [90]. The only self-citations are [2] (the authors' earlier ISVLSI paper, transparently described as the base being expanded), [68] (FORTIS, cited as background for logic locking), and [69] (Camskygate, cited as an example of skyrmion-based locking). None of these is used to justify a taxonomic cell or to replace an external experimental result; removing them would not change any entry in Tables 1 or 2 or any stated conclusion. The publication-trend analysis in Section 5 is descriptive Web of Science data, not a fitted parameter or a prediction, so it cannot be circular in the technical sense. The questionable Table 2 entry listing PCM as vulnerable to thermal attacks via [94] is a source-fidelity and correctness concern, because [94] is a temperature-sensitivity study of analog in-memory computing rather than an attack demonstration; but this is an over-credited source, not circularity, since the survey's output is not equivalent to its input by construction. No equation, fitted parameter, or load-bearing self-citation chain can be exhibited, so no circular step is identified.
Assumptions & free parameters
assumptions (3)
- domain assumption Cited prior works accurately characterize eNVM vulnerabilities, security primitives, and attacks.
- domain assumption The Web of Science counts in Figure 6 are a faithful measure of publication trends.
- domain assumption The background physics of the five memory technologies is correctly described.
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read the original abstract
The modern semiconductor industry requires memory solutions that can keep pace with the high-speed demands of high-performance computing. Embedded non-volatile memories (eNVMs) address these requirements by offering faster access to stored data at an improved computational throughput and efficiency. Furthermore, these technologies offer numerous appealing features, including limited area-energy-runtime budget and data retention capabilities. Among these, the data retention feature of eNVMs has garnered particular interest within the semiconductor community. Although this property allows eNVMs to retain data even in the absence of a continuous power supply, it also introduces some vulnerabilities, prompting security concerns. These concerns have sparked increased interest in examining the broader security implications associated with eNVM technologies. This paper examines the security aspects of eNVMs by discussing the reasons for vulnerabilities in specific memories from an architectural point of view. Additionally, this paper extensively reviews eNVM-based security primitives, such as physically unclonable functions and true random number generators, as well as techniques like logic obfuscation. The paper also explores a broad spectrum of security threats to eNVMs, including physical attacks such as side-channel attacks, fault injection, and probing, as well as logical threats like information leakage, denial-of-service, and thermal attacks. Finally, the paper presents a study of publication trends in the eNVM domain since the early 2000s, reflecting the rising momentum and research activity in this field.
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