Hardware security and trust have become a pressing issue during the last two decades due
to the globalization of the semiconductor supply chain and ubiquitous network connection of …

The multinational, distributed, and multistep nature of integrated circuit (IC) production
supply chain has introduced hardware-based vulnerabilities. Existing literature in hardware …

As the electronic component supply chain grows more complex due to globalization, with
parts coming from a diverse set of suppliers, counterfeit electronics have become a major …

Research in the field of hardware Trojans has seen significant growth in the past decade.
However, standard benchmarks to evaluate hardware Trojans and their detection are …

Due to globalization of integrated circuit (IC) design flow, rogue elements in the supply chain
can pirate ICs, overbuild ICs, and insert hardware Trojans. EPIC locks the design by …

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 …

Camouflaging is a layout-level technique that hampers an attacker from reverse engineering
by introducing, in one embodiment, dummy contacts into the layout. By using a mix of real …

Logic encryption is a hardware security technique that uses extra key inputs to lock a given
combinational circuit. A recent study by Subramanyan et al. shows that all existing logic …

Hardware piracy is a threat that is becoming more and more serious these last years. The
different types of threats include mask theft, illegal overproduction, as well as the insertion of …

Logic locking and IC camouflaging are proactive circuit obfuscation methods that if proven
secure can thwart hardware attacks such as reverse engineering and IP theft. However, the …