Due to globalization in the semiconductor industry, malevolent modifications made in the hardware circuitry, known as hardware Trojans (HTs), have rendered the security of the chip very critical. Over the years, many methods have been proposed to det...
Hardware Trojans refer to additional logic maliciously implanted by attackers in integrated circuits (ICs). Because of the potential security threat of hardware Trojans, they have attracted extensive attention to security issues. As a formal verifica...
Property-driven hardware verification provides a promising way to uncover design vulnerabilities. However, developing security properties that check for highly concealed security vulnerabilities remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we prop...
Although hardware trojans impose a relevant threat to the hardware security of RISC-V and Web3 applications, existing datasets have a limited set of examples, as the most famous hardware trojan dataset TrustHub has 106 different trojans. RISC-V speci...
The chip manufacturing of integrated circuits requires the participation of multiple parties, which greatly increases the possibility of hardware Trojan insertion and poses a significant threat to the entire hardware device landing; however, traditio...
Cyber physical systems (CPSs) increasingly depend on complex hardware IP cores to perform critical functions. However, triggered hardware Trojans’ stealthy, malicious modifications activated under rare conditions pose significant threats to the...
To ensure that a hardware Trojan remains hidden in a circuit, it is usually necessary to ensure that the trigger signal has a low testability, which has been widely recognized and proven. The most advanced testability-based detection methods are rath...
The Cyber-Physical System and even the Metaverse will become the second space in which human beings live. While bringing convenience to human beings, it also brings many security threats. These threats may come from software or hardware. There has be...
Traditionally, inserting realistic Hardware Trojans (HTs) in complex hardware systems has been a time-consuming manual process, requiring comprehensive knowledge of the design and navigating intricate Hardware Description Language (HDL) codebases. Ma...
With the advancement of beyond-CMOS devices to keep Moore’s law alive, several emerging devices have found application in a wide range of applications. Spintronic devices offer low power, non-volatility, inherent spatial and temporal randomness...
Hardware Trojans (HTs) pose a security threat to the Internet of Things (IoT). Attackers can take control of devices in IoT through HTs, which seriously jeopardize the security of many systems in transportation, finance, healthcare, etc. Since subtle...
To shorten the development cycle of integrated circuit (IC) chips, third-party IP cores (3PIPs) are widely used in the design phase; however, these 3PIPs may be untrusted, creating potential vulnerabilities. Attackers may insert hardware Trojans (HTs...
Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) offer the inherent ability to reconfigure at runtime, making them ideal for applications such as data centers, cloud computing, and edge computing. This reconfiguration, often achieved through remote access, ena...
The globalization of the integrated circuit (IC) industry has raised concerns about hardware Trojans (HT), and there is an urgent need for efficient HT-detection methods of gate-level netlists. Machine learning (ML) is a powerful tool for this purpos...
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated significant superiority in modern artificial intelligence (AI) applications. To accelerate the inference process of CNNs, reconfigurable CNN accelerators that support diverse networks are widely...
The integrated circuit (IC) supply chain has become globalized, thereby inevitably introducing hardware Trojan (HT) threats during the design stage. To safeguard the integrity and security of ICs, many machine learning (ML)-based solutions have been...
The globalization of integrated circuit (IC) design and fabrication has given rise to severe concerns with respect to modeling strategic interaction between malicious attackers and Hardware Trojan (HT) defenders using game theory. The quantitative as...
The globalization of hardware design flows has increased the risk of Hardware Trojan (HT) insertion during the design phase. Graph-based learning methods have shown promise for HT detection at the Register Transfer Level (RTL). However, most existing...
With the increasing complexity of integrated circuit design, the threat of a hardware Trojan (HT) is becoming more and more prominent. At present, the research mainly focuses on the detection of HTs, but the amount of research on the diagnosis of HTs...
Security of IoT devices is getting a lot of attention from researchers as they are becoming prevalent everywhere. However, implementation of hardware security in these devices has been overlooked, and many researches have mainly focused on software,...
Soft errors and Hardware Trojans (HTs) constitute major reliability concerns, and in combination they can pose an even greater threat to circuit security. The main aim of this research is to develop and implement a reliability-based HT and to identif...
As a result of the globalisation of the semiconductor design and fabrication processes, integrated circuits are becoming increasingly vulnerable to malicious attacks. The most concerning threats are hardware trojans. A hardware trojan is a malicious...
With the boom in artificial intelligence (AI), numerous reconfigurable convolution neural network (CNN) accelerators have emerged within both industry and academia, aiming to enhance AI computing capabilities. However, this rapid landscape has also w...
Hardware Trojans (HTs) are malicious hardware components designed to leak confidential information or cause the chip/circuit on which they are integrated to malfunction during operation. When we deploy such hardware platforms for edge computing, FPGA...
Diverse and wide-range applications of integrated circuits (ICs) and the development of Cyber Physical System (CPS), more and more third-party manufacturers are involved in the manufacturing of ICs. Unfortunately, like software, hardware can also be...
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In modern computing, which relies on the interconnection of networks used in many/multi-core systems, any system can be critically subverted if the interconnection is compromised. This can be done in a multitude of ways, but the threat of a hardware...
The exponential growth and widespread adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) devices have introduced many vulnerabilities. Attackers frequently exploit these flaws, necessitating advanced technological approaches to protect against emerging cyber threa...
Effective resistance to intellectual property theft, reverse engineering, and hardware Trojan insertion in integrated circuit supply chains is increasingly essential, for which many solutions have been proposed. Accordingly, strong attacks are also d...
The chances of detecting a malicious reliability attack induced by an offshore foundry are grim. The hardware Trojans affecting a circuit’s reliability do not tend to alter the circuit layout. These Trojans often manifest as an increased delay...
Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) have profoundly influenced the way individuals and enterprises interact with the world. Although attacks on IoT devices are becoming more commonplace, security metrics often focus on software,...
The increasing complexity and cost of manufacturing monolithic chips have driven the semiconductor industry toward chiplet-based designs, where smaller, modular chiplets are integrated onto a single interposer. While chiplet architectures offer signi...
Integrated circuits are the core of a cyber-physical system, where tens of billions of components are integrated into a tiny silicon chip to conduct complex functions. To maximize utilities, the design and manufacturing life cycle of integrated circu...
The integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing process involves many players, from chip/board design and fabrication to firmware design and installation. In today’s global supply chain, any of these steps are prone to interference from rogue players, crea...
A biometric recognition system is one of the leading candidates for the current and the next generation of smart visual systems. The visual system is the engine of the surveillance cameras that have great importance for intelligence and security purp...
A significant problem in the field of hardware security consists of hardware trojan (HT) viruses. The insertion of HTs into a circuit can be applied for each phase of the circuit chain of production. HTs degrade the infected circuit, destroy it or le...
Stealthy chip-level tamper attacks, such as hardware Trojan insertions or security-critical circuit modifications, can threaten modern microelectronic systems’ security. While traditional inspection and side-channel methods offer potential for...
Ensuring the security of IoT devices and chips at runtime has become an urgent task as they have been widely used in human life. Embedded memories are vital components of SoC (System on Chip) in these devices. If they are attacked or incur faults at...
Hardware security has become a hot topic recently with more and more researchers from related research domains joining this area. However, the understanding of hardware security is often mixed with cybersecurity and cryptography, especially cryptogra...
Countermeasures against diverse security threats typically incur noticeable hardware cost and power overhead, which may become the obstacle for those countermeasures to be applicable in energy-efficient computing systems. This work presents a summary...
Temperature sensors play an important role in modern monitoring and control applications. When more and more sensors are integrated into internet-connected systems, the integrity and security of sensors become a concern and cannot be ignored anymore....
In this review article for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, important low-power design techniques for digital and mixed-signal analog–digital converter (ADC) circuits are presented. Emerging low voltage logic devices and non-volatile memories (...
Nowadays, the analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) cores play an important role in system on chip (SoC) design due to their capabilities in performing critical functions. These IPs can be the target of adversaries similar to their digit...
One of the main vulnerabilities in robotic systems lies in the communication buses that enable low-level controllers to interact with the actuators responsible for the robot’s movements. In this context, hardware attacks represent a significant...
Neural networks have become pivotal in advancing applications across various domains, including healthcare, finance, surveillance, and autonomous systems. To achieve low latency and high efficiency, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are increasi...
Universal adversarial perturbations are image-agnostic and model-independent noise that, when added to any image, can mislead the trained deep convolutional neural networks into the wrong prediction. Since these universal adversarial perturbations ca...
Hardware intellectual property (IP) cores from untrusted vendors are widely used, raising security concerns for system designers. Although formal methods provide powerful solutions for detecting malicious behaviors in hardware, the participation of m...
Due to the outsourcing of chip manufacturing, countermeasures against Integrated Circuit (IC) piracy, reverse engineering, IC overbuilding and hardware Trojans (HTs) become a hot research topic. To protect an IC from these attacks, logic encryption t...
Various hardware security concerns, such as hardware Trojans and IP piracy, have sparked studies in the security field employing alternatives to CMOS chips. Spintronic devices are among the most-promising alternatives to CMOS devices for applications...
Split manufacturing was introduced as a countermeasure against hardware-level security threats such as IP piracy, overbuilding, and insertion of hardware Trojans. However, the security promise of split manufacturing has been challenged by various att...
The current trend of globalization of the supply chain in the integrated circuit (IC) industry has led to numerous security issues, such as intellectual property (IP) piracy, overbuilding, hardware Trojan (HT), and so on. Over the past decade or so,...
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