MAGIC: Malicious aging in Circuits/Cores

Naghmeh Karimi; Arun Karthik Kanuparthi; Xueyang Wang; Ozgur Sinanoglu; Ramesh Karri

doi:10.1145/2724718

MAGIC: Malicious aging in Circuits/Cores

Naghmeh Karimi, Arun Karthik Kanuparthi, Xueyang Wang, Ozgur Sinanoglu, Ramesh Karri

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Abstract

The performance of an IC degrades over its lifetime, ultimately resulting in IC failure. In this article, we present a hardware attack (called MAGIC) to maliciously accelerate NBTI aging effects in cores. In this attack, we identify the input patterns that maliciously age the pipestages of a core. We then craft a program that generates these patterns at the inputs of the targeted pipestage. We demonstrate the MAGIC-based attack on the OpenSPARC processor. Executing this program dramatically accelerates the aging process and degrades the processor's performance by 10.92% in 1 month, bypassing existing aging mitigation and timing-error correction schemes. We also present two low-cost techniques to thwart the proposed attack.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	5
Journal	ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization
Volume	12
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2724718
State	Published - Apr 1 2015

Keywords

Hardware security
Malicious aging acceleration
NBTI aging

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Software
Information Systems
Hardware and Architecture

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