Preventing design reverse engineering with reconfigurable spin transfer torque LUT gates
Theodore Winograd, Hassan Salmani, Hamid Mahmoodi, Houman Homayoun · 2016
This paper presents a rigorous step towards design-for-assurance by employing the non-volatile spin transfer torque magnetic technology to design reconfigurable Look-Up-Tables logic components (NV-STT-based LUTs). Further, we introduce a novel security-driven STT-CMOS hybrid design flow that ensures the functionality of NV-STT-based LUTs cannot be determined in any manageable time, rendering any design reverse engineering attack ineffective. In addition, the flow ensures that there is minimum or no impact on design parametric constraints including performance, power and area.