Dr. Raj Gautam Dutta is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Silicon Assurance, where he defines the company’s strategic direction and leads its technology and product vision. He is responsible for driving the development of differentiated hardware security solutions, executing growth and partnership strategies, and positioning the company within the global semiconductor and security ecosystem. With over eight years of experience in hardware security innovation, Dr. Dutta has a proven record of translating advanced research into deployable, market-ready technologies. His background in technology transfer and strategic technology analysis enables Silicon Assurance to deliver solutions that combine deep technical rigor with commercial and mission-critical relevance.
Tell us about your company
Silicon Assurance is a Security EDA company dedicated to strengthening semiconductor supply chain trust by enabling organizations to establish verifiable confidence in the security of the silicon they design, integrate, procure, and deploy. Our flagship platform, Analyz-N™, is a gate-level security assurance platform that automates the identification of security-relevant assets, analyzes post-synthesis security risk, and generates audit-ready assurance reports to prove customers’ silicon is verifiably secure, not merely assumed secure.
What problems are you solving?
Modern microelectronics underpin mission-critical cyber and national security systems, yet hardware security assurance has not kept pace with the sophistication of emerging threats. The complexity of AI accelerators, the rise of multi-chiplet architectures, and pervasive third-party IP reuse have significantly expanded the hardware attack surface and weakened traditional trust boundaries. Current practices rely heavily on RTL-focused point tools and static checklists, which fail to capture evolving hardware threats and the security implications of EDA design and verification flows that were not built with adversarial behavior in mind. As a result, vulnerabilities—such as leakage paths, privilege escalation, hardware Trojans, or countermeasures that fail to propagate through synthesis—can remain undetected until post-deployment.
Silicon Assurance is developing Analyz-NTM, an end-to-end automated gate-level security assurance EDA platform designed to prove the security of microelectronics. Our flagship platform’s capabilities include automatically identifying security-relevant assets, correlating them with common security weaknesses, analyzing post-synthesis security risk, identifying attack stimuli, locating the source of weakness, and generating security testbenches. This allows customers to detect security degradation before silicon is built and to prove, rather than assume, that their silicon is secure.
What application areas are your strongest?
We are strongest in high-assurance and mission-critical applications, including defense, aerospace, critical infrastructure, and automotive. Our platform is particularly valuable for designs where a single security failure can lead to system compromise, safety risks, or national security impacts.
What keeps your customers up at night?
Customers worry about unknown security vulnerabilities in their designs, which can lead to system recalls and the remanufacturing of chips. They are concerned about auditability, compliance, and proving their chips are secure for their customers.
What does the competitive landscape look like and how do you differentiate?
Existing solutions fall into three categories:
● Traditional EDA tools: Focused on functional correctness and performance, not adversarial security behavior.
● Manual security reviews: Expert-driven but slow, subjective, limited in coverage, and unscalable.
● Point security tools: Designed for RTL analysis and narrow in scope, i.e., focus on a subset of collaterals generated by Analyz-N .
Silicon Assurance differentiates by being security-first, implementation-aware, scalable, exhaustive, and autonomous, positioning it to define hardware security verification as a core requirement for silicon designs rather than an ad-hoc review step.
What new features or technology are you working on?
We are combining GenAI-driven formal analysis, rule-based analysis, fuzzing-style exploration, and AI-driven reasoning into the Analyz-N platform to make it accessible to entry-level security verification engineers. Furthermore, such technologies will enable Analyz-N to detect various threat categories. The platform’s results are repeatable, verifiable, accurate, and scalable to modern hardware designs, enabling forward integration into commercial design flows.
How do customers normally engage with your company?
Customers typically engage through pilot evaluations on real IPs or SoCs, where we demonstrate concrete, design-specific findings. From there, we move into enterprise deployments aligned with existing verification flows and simulators. Our engagements are highly collaborative. We work closely with security, verification, and design teams to integrate Analyz-N into their design and verification lifecycle.
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