Golden-Chip-Free Hardware Trojan Detection Through Quiescent Thermal Maps

Hardware trojan (HT) is increasingly becoming a major threat in the integrated circuit (IC) industry. Among all the countermeasures, academia is currently paying their most attention to the side-channel ones. However, most of the existing side-channel countermeasures need fabricated golden chips tha...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on very large scale integration (VLSI) systems 2019-12, Vol.27 (12), p.2872-2883
Main Authors: Tang, Yongkang, Li, Shaoqing, Fang, Liang, Hu, Xiao, Chen, Jihua
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cameras
Chip formation
Digital signal processing
Digital signal processors
Foundries
Hardware
Hardware security
hardware trojan (HT) detection
Integrated circuits
Malware
Microprocessors
quiescent thermal map
Semiconductor device measurement
Shape
Target detection
Thermal mapping
Trojan horses
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Summary:Hardware trojan (HT) is increasingly becoming a major threat in the integrated circuit (IC) industry. Among all the countermeasures, academia is currently paying their most attention to the side-channel ones. However, most of the existing side-channel countermeasures need fabricated golden chips that are difficult to obtain practically. In this article, we propose a novel strategy for HT detection using the target chip's quiescent thermal maps and its active area (AA) shape from the GDS II file. The AA shape cannot expose the design information of the target chip and serves as the golden reference, which means that our countermeasure does not need fabricated golden chips anymore. In addition, this countermeasure cannot be influenced by process variation (PV) from the perspective of our detection mechanism. The results of the experiment on our designed YinHeFeiTeng-digital signal processor (YHFT-DSP) indicate that our countermeasure can effectively detect trojans with a very small scale.
ISSN:1063-8210
1557-9999
DOI:10.1109/TVLSI.2019.2933441