EECE5699 — Computer Hardware and System Security: Reviews & Ratings

EECE5699 (Computer Hardware and System Security) course reviews and ratings at Northeastern (NEU). Compare professors with RateMyProfessor reviews.

Introduces computer hardware and system security. Covers state-of-the-art hardware security and trust issues, including a hands-on lab session to implement various hardware security attacks. Topics include applied cryptography, side-channel attacks, differential power analysis, fault injection and analysis, cache side-channel attacks (Meltdown and Spectre), acoustic analysis, and hardware security primitives (physical unclonable function and random number generator).

Last taught

Fall 2025

Credits

4 Hours

Prerequisites

EECE 3324 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- or CS 3650 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- or CS 5600 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of D- or graduate program admission

Data updated October 2026.

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