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Hardware Trojan Detection

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Emerging trend of outsourcing the design and fabrication services to external facilities as well as increasing reliance on third-party Intellectual Property (IP) cores and electronic design automation tools makes integrated circuits (ICs) increasingly vulnerable to hardware Trojan attacks at different stages of its life-cycle. Figure 15.1 shows the modern IC design, fabrication, test, and deployment stages highlighting the level of trust at each stage. This scenario raises a new set of challenges for trust validation with respect to malicious design modification at various stages of an IC life-cycle, where untrusted components/personnel are involved [1]. In particular, it brings in the requirement for reliable detection of malicious design modification made in an untrusted fabrication facility, during post-manufacturing test. It also imposes a requirement for trust validation in IP cores obtained from untrusted thirdparty vendors.

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    Seetharam Narasimhan & Swarup Bhunia

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Narasimhan, S., Bhunia, S. (2012). Hardware Trojan Detection. In: Tehranipoor, M., Wang, C. (eds) Introduction to Hardware Security and Trust. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8080-9_15

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