Logic locking is a hardware-based solution that protects against hardware intellectual
property (IP) piracy. With the advent of powerful machine learning (ML)-based attacks, in the …

Reverse engineering (RE) of finite state machines (FSMs) is a serious threat when
protecting designs against RE attacks. While most recent protection techniques rely on the …

Logic locking (LL) has gained attention as a promising intellectual property protection
measure for integrated circuits. However, recent attacks, facilitated by machine learning …

Machine learning (ML) and algorithmic structural attacks have highlighted the possibility of
utilizing structural leakages of an obfuscated circuit to reverse engineer the locking …

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

The burgeoning costs of integrated circuit (IC) fabrication have led to widespread
globalization of the IC supply chain, exposing IC designs to hardware security threats like …