About the Centre of Hardware Assurance (CHA) The vision of Centre of Hardware Assurance (CHA) is to be the National Centre of Excellence for Hardware Assurance. The mission of CHA is to provide analysis capabilities from non-invasive to invasive techniques in vulnerability assessment, forensics and certification of hardware devices and components. CHA comprises three main research groups: the Hardware Analysis team (HA), Circuit Analysis (CA) team, and Physical Analysis & Cryptographic Engineering (PACE) team. The HA team focuses on developing new techniques using state-of-the-art failure analysis tools for package and chip access, imaging and security assessment. The CA team researches the design and development of advanced algorithms and tools for automatic and efficient analysis of VLSI digital integrated circuits, utilizing deep learning techniques for better adaptability and productivity. The PACE team aims to advance side-channel and fault analysis techniques for hardwa...