—Increasing integrated circuit (IC) power densities and temperatures may hamper multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) use in hard real-time systems. This article formalizes the t...
Thidapat Chantem, Robert P. Dick, Xiaobo Sharon Hu
As semiconductor manufacturing requires greater capital investments, the use of contract foundries has grown dramatically, increasing exposure to mask theft and unauthorized exces...
When a signal traverses on-chip voltage domains, a level shifter is required. Inverters can handle a high to low voltage shift with minimal leakage. For a low to high voltage leve...
Abstract: Circuit CAD Tools as a Security Threat Jarrod A. Roy†, Farinaz Koushanfar‡ and Igor L. Markov† †The University of Michigan, Department of EECS, 2260 Hayward Ave.,...
—Trusted IC design is a recently emerged topic since fabrication factories are moving worldwide in order to reduce cost. In order to get a low-cost but effective hardware Trojan ...