Chapter 13

Security and Trust Assessment, and Design for Security

Abstract

This chapter presents pre-silicon and post-silicon security and trust assessment techniques. Pre-silicon assessment techniques analyze vulnerabilities of a hardware design and assess its security at various stages of design process, including register-transfer level (RTL), gate-level netlist, design-for-test (DFT) insertion, and physical design. On the other hand, post-silicon assessment techniques aims to identify security and trust issues in the fabricated integrated circuit (IC). The design for security and trust techniques, which provide additional resources in the hardware to make it inherently resilient to different attacks, for example, Trojan insertion, fault ...

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