Abetting Planned Obsolescence by Aging 3D Networks-on-Chip

Sourav Das, Kanad Basu, Janardhan Rao Doppa, Partha Pratim Pande, Ramesh Karri, Krishnendu Chakrabarty

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Abstract

We set up a security analysis framework by aging the Network-on-Chip (NoC) to study planned obsolescence by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM). An NoC is the communication backbone in a manycore System-on-Chip (SoC). Planned obsolescence may adopt any vulnerability in the NoC to cause the SoC to fail. We show how an OEM can craft workloads to generate electromigration-induced stress and crosstalk noise in TSV-based vertical links in the NoC to hasten failure. We analyzed three malicious workloads and confirm that a crafted workload that injects 3-10% more traffic on to a few selected critical vertical links can shorten the lifetime of the NoC by 11%-25% averaged over the benchmarks considered in this work.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2018 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip, NOCS 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781538648933
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 26 2018
Event12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip, NOCS 2018 - Torino, Italy
Duration: Oct 4 2018Oct 5 2018

Publication series

Name2018 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip, NOCS 2018

Other

Other12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip, NOCS 2018
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityTorino
Period10/4/1810/5/18

Keywords

  • 3D NoC
  • EDP
  • Electromigration
  • Energy
  • Hardware Attack
  • Latency
  • Security
  • TSV

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture

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