Every year, the rate at which technology is applied on areas of our everyday life is
increasing at a steady pace. This rapid development drives the technology companies to …

While the move to smaller transistors has been a boon for performance it has dramatically
increased the cost to fabricate chips using those smaller transistors. This forces the vast …

Logic locking has emerged as a promising technique for protecting gate-level
semiconductor intellectual property. However, recent work has shown that such gate-level …

Abstract Hardware Trojans (HTs) can be implanted in security-weak parts of a chip with
various means to steal the internal sensitive data or modify original functionality, which may …

The increasing cost of integrated circuit (IC) fabrication has driven most companies to" go
fabless" over time. The corresponding outsourcing trend gave rise to various attack vectors …

Due to the prohibitive costs of semiconductor manufacturing, most system-on-chip design
companies outsource their production to offshore foundries. As most of these devices are …

Due to escalating manufacturing costs the latest and most advanced semiconductor
technologies are often available at off-shore foundries. Utilizing these facilities significantly …

Split manufacturing of integrated circuits eliminates vulnerabilities introduced by an
untrusted foundry by manufacturing only a part of design at an untrusted high-end foundry …

There are increasing concerns about possible malicious modifications of integrated circuits
(ICs) used in critical applications. Such attacks are often referred to as hardware Trojans …

Designers use third-party intellectual property (IP) cores and outsource various steps in their
integrated circuit (IC) design flow, including fabrication. As a result, security vulnerabilities …