TY - GEN
T1 - Reconfigurable logic for hardware IP protection
T2 - 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, ICCAD 2022
AU - Collini, Luca
AU - Tan, Benjamin
AU - Pilato, Christian
AU - Karri, Ramesh
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PY - 2022/10/30
Y1 - 2022/10/30
N2 - Protecting the intellectual property (IP) of integrated circuit (IC) design is becoming a significant concern of fab-less semiconductor design houses. Malicious actors can access the chip design at any stage, reverse engineer the functionality, and create illegal copies. On the one hand, defenders are crafting more and more solutions to hide the critical portions of the circuit. On the other hand, attackers are designing more and more powerful tools to extract useful information from the design and reverse engineer the functionality, especially when they can get access to working chips. In this context, the use of custom reconfigurable fabrics has recently been investigated for hardware IP protection. This paper will discuss recent trends in hardware obfuscation with embedded FPGAs, focusing also on the open challenges that must be necessarily addressed for making this solution viable.
AB - Protecting the intellectual property (IP) of integrated circuit (IC) design is becoming a significant concern of fab-less semiconductor design houses. Malicious actors can access the chip design at any stage, reverse engineer the functionality, and create illegal copies. On the one hand, defenders are crafting more and more solutions to hide the critical portions of the circuit. On the other hand, attackers are designing more and more powerful tools to extract useful information from the design and reverse engineer the functionality, especially when they can get access to working chips. In this context, the use of custom reconfigurable fabrics has recently been investigated for hardware IP protection. This paper will discuss recent trends in hardware obfuscation with embedded FPGAs, focusing also on the open challenges that must be necessarily addressed for making this solution viable.
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U2 - 10.1145/3508352.3561117
DO - 10.1145/3508352.3561117
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85145668451
T3 - IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Digest of Technical Papers, ICCAD
BT - Proceedings of the 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, ICCAD 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 30 October 2022 through 4 November 2022
ER -