Logic locking for IP security: A comprehensive analysis on challenges, techniques, and trends

J Gandhi, D Shekhawat, M Santosh, JG Pandey - Computers & Security, 2023 - Elsevier
A substantial part of the Integrated Circuit (IC) supply chain that involves semiconductor
fabrication, packaging, and testing has shifted globally to minimize IC costs and satisfy …

OMLA: An Oracle-Less Machine Learning-Based Attack on Logic Locking

L Alrahis, S Patnaik, M Shafique… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hardware-based attacks on the semiconductor supply chain are emerging due to the
globalization of the design flow. Logic locking is a design-for-trust scheme that promises …

GNN-RE: Graph Neural Networks for Reverse Engineering of Gate-Level Netlists

L Alrahis, A Sengupta, J Knechtel… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work introduces a generic, machine learning (ML)-based platform for functional reverse
engineering (RE) of circuits. Our proposed platform GNN-RE leverages the notion of graph …

MuxLink: Circumventing learning-resilient mux-locking using graph neural network-based link prediction

L Alrahis, S Patnaik, M Shafique… - … Design, Automation & …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Logic locking has received considerable interest as a prominent technique for protecting the
design intellectual property from untrusted entities, especially the foundry. Recently …

Graph neural networks: A powerful and versatile tool for advancing design, reliability, and security of ICs

L Alrahis, J Knechtel, O Sinanoglu - Proceedings of the 28th Asia and …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have pushed the state-of-the-art (SOTA) for performance in
learning and predicting on large-scale data present in social networks, biology, etc. Since …

GNN4REL: Graph neural networks for predicting circuit reliability degradation

L Alrahis, J Knechtel, F Klemme… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Process variations and device aging impose profound challenges for circuit designers.
Without a precise understanding of the impact of variations on the delay of circuit paths …

Embracing graph neural networks for hardware security

L Alrahis, S Patnaik, M Shafique… - Proceedings of the 41st …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have attracted increasing attention due to their superior
performance in deep learning on graph-structured data. GNNs have succeeded across …

: Backdoor Attack on Graph Neural Networks-Based Hardware Security Systems

L Alrahis, S Patnaik, MA Hanif… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown great success in detecting intellectual property
(IP) piracy and hardware Trojans (HTs). However, the machine learning community has …

AppGNN: Approximation-aware functional reverse engineering using graph neural networks

T Bücher, L Alrahis, G Paim, S Bampi… - Proceedings of the 41st …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The globalization of the Integrated Circuit (IC) market is attracting an ever-growing number
of partners, while remarkably lengthening the supply chain. Thereby, security concerns …

TrojanSAINT: Gate-level netlist sampling-based inductive learning for hardware Trojan detection

H Lashen, L Alrahis, J Knechtel… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose TrojanSAINT, a graph neural network (GNN)-based hardware Trojan (HT)
detection scheme working at the gate level. Unlike prior GNN-based art, TrojanSAINT …