If you care about security, you probably don't care about performance. High-performance cores are very complicated and hard to follow. But, if you give up perfo

If you care about security, you probably don't care about performance. High-performance cores are very complicated and hard to follow. But, if you give up performance, you can design a core that uses very simple concepts, making it hard to hide a backdoor in the design. Things like Chisel, which let you write your design in a higher-level language, help with that too.