The fabless business model has given rise to many security threats, including piracy of
intellectual property (IP), overproduction, counterfeiting, reverse engineering (RE), and …

Increasing threats involving hardware Trojans, intellectual property, piracy, reverse
engineering and industrialization of semiconductor technology have forced semiconductor …

An increasingly popular method for defending an integrated circuit (IC) against theft, excess
production, and the Hardware Trojans (HT) is logic locking. The majority of popular logical …

We present a logic ambiguity-based intellectual property (IP) obfuscation method that
replaces traditional key gates with key-controlled functionally ambiguous logic gates, called …

BISTLock is a recently proposed logic-locking technique that integrates a barrier finite-state-
machine (FSM) with the built-in self-test (BIST) controller. We demonstrate the vulnerability …

The globalization of IC manufacturing has increased the likelihood for IP providers to suffer
financial and reputational loss from IP piracy. Logic locking prevents IP piracy by corrupting …

This thesis contributes to protecting the chips' intellectual property by taking a novel
perspective on sequential reverse engineering and obfuscation. It derives a novel …

With the rise of computing devices, the security robustness of the devices has become of
utmost importance. Companies invest huge sums of money, time and effort in security …