Design of security primitives for trustworthy integrated circuits
Yuan Cao · 2015
The horizontal business model in semiconductor industry has brought economic benefits but relinquished the control that integrated circuit (IC) designer had in chip design and manufacturing, thus making chips expose to greater security threats and vulnerable to various kinds of hardware attacks.As electronic devices becoming increasingly ubiquitous and permeated into our daily lives, critical basic infrastructures and national defense systems, hardware security features that can assure the trustworthiness of an integrated system in a reliable, efficient and inexpensive way are highly desirable.In the dissertation, two embedded hardware security primitives, namely active current sensors and Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are investigated for hardware Trojan (HT) detection, device identification and authentication.Hardware Trojans are the deliberate and malicious alterations to original IC designs that can jeopardize the design integrity, stealing the confidential information It is my honor to work with my supervisor, Prof. Chen Shoushun and my co-supervisor