Friday, November 17, 2017

Tortuga Logic, Co-Founded By UCSD, UCSB Profs, Raises $2M For Hardware Security

Tortuga Logic, a new startup focused on chip-level cybersecurity technology whose founders include professors from UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara, has raised $2M in a seed funding, the company disclosed on Thursday. The seed funding came from Eclipse Ventures. Tortuga Logic, which is based in Palo Alto, was co-founded by UC San Diego alumni Dr. Jason Oberg, former UC San Diego postdoc researcher Dr. Jonathan Valamehr, Professor Ryan Kastner of UC San Diego, and Professor Tim Sherwood of UC Santa Barbara, and is developing technology which is used to detect security issues in hardware designs, rather than the current method of laborious code reviews and software tests for security issues. That technology revolves around automated security rules applied to high definition languages like SystemVerilog, Verilog and VHDL, which are run against hardware designs--before they are baked into silicon--for potential security issues. More information »