Design Enablement Flow for Circuits with Inherent Obfuscation based on Reconfigurable Transistors
Jens Trommer, Niladri Bhattacharjee, Thomas Mikolajick, S. Huhn, M. Merten, M.E. Djeridane, Md Arif Hassan, Rolf Drechsler, Shubham Rai, Nima Kavand, Armin Darjani, Akash S. Kumar, V. Sessi, Maximilian Drescher, Sabine Kolodinski, M. Wiatr · 2023
Reconfigurable transistors are a new emerging type of device, which offer the promise to improve the resistance of electronic components against know-how theft. In order to enable a product development of such an emerging device, a cross-layer design enablement strategy is needed, as emerging technologies are not necessarily compatible withstandard tools used in the industry. In ‘CirroStrato’, we aim on the development of such a complete flow enabling CMOS co-integration of reconfigurable transistors, ranging from process adjustments, device modeling, library characterization, physical and logical synthesis up towards sophisticated hardware security tests. In this multi-partner-project (MPP) paper, our aim is to elucidate the overall design enablement flow, as well as current research challenges on the individual stages.