Security Closure of IC Layouts Against Hardware Trojans
Fangzhou Wang, Qijing Wang, Bangqi Fu, Shui Jiang, Xiaopeng Zhang, Lilas Alrahis, Ozgur Sinanoglu, Johann Knechtel, Tsung-Yi Ho, Evangeline F. Y. Young · 2023
Due to cost benefits, supply chains of integrated circuits (ICs) are largely outsourced nowadays. However, passing ICs through various third-party providers gives rise to many threats, like piracy of IC intellectual property or insertion of hardware Trojans, i.e., malicious circuit modifications.