Concerted wire lifting: Enabling secure and cost-effective split manufacturing

Satwik Patnaik, Johann Knechtel, Mohammed Ashraf, Ozgur Sinanoglu

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Abstract

Here we advance the protection of split manufacturing (SM)-based layouts through the judicious and well-controlled handling of interconnects. Initially, we explore the cost-security trade-offs of SM, which are limiting its adoption. Aiming to resolve this issue, we propose effective and efficient strategies to lift nets to the BEOL. Towards this end, we design custom 'elevating cells' which we also provide to the community. Further, we define and promote a new metric, Percentage of Netlist Recovery (PNR), which can quantify the resilience against gate-level theft of intellectual property (IP) in a manner more meaningful than established metrics. Our extensive experiments show that we outperform the recent protection schemes regarding security. For example, we reduce the correct connection rate to 0% for commonly considered benchmarks, which is a first in the literature. Besides, we induce reasonably low and controllable overheads on power, performance, and area (PPA). At the same time, we also help to lower the commercial cost incurred by SM.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationASP-DAC 2018 - 23rd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages251-258
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781509006021
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 20 2018
Event23rd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC 2018 - Jeju, Korea, Republic of
Duration: Jan 22 2018Jan 25 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC
Volume2018-January

Other

Other23rd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC 2018
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityJeju
Period1/22/181/25/18

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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