Hardware security and trust have become a pressing issue during the last two decades due
to the globalization of the semiconductor supply chain and ubiquitous network connection of …

The fabrication of digital Integrated Circuits (ICs) is increasingly outsourced. Given this trend,
security is recognized as an important issue. The threat agent is an attacker at the IC foundry …

3D die stacking and 2.5 D interposer design are promising technologies to improve
integration density, performance and cost. Current approaches face serious issues in …

A practically feasible low-overhead hardware design that provides strong defenses against
memory bus side channel remains elusive. This paper observes that smart memory, memory …

Three-dimensional (3D) integration of electronic chips has been advocated by both industry
and academia for many years. It is acknowledged as one of the most promising approaches …

Physical limit of transistor miniaturization has driven chip design into the third dimension. 3D
integration technology emerges as a viable option to improve chip performance and …

Securing the supply chain of integrated circuits is of utmost importance to computer security.
In addition to counterfeit microelectronics, the theft or malicious modification of designs in …

Various side-channel attacks (SCAs) on ICs have been successfully demonstrated and also
mitigated to some degree. In the context of 3D ICs, however, prior art has mainly focused on …

Leveraging 2.5 D interposer technology, we advocate the integration of untrusted commodity
components/chiplets with physically separate, entrusted logic components. Such …

Trusted hardware's freshness guarantee ensures that an adversary cannot replay an old
value in response to a memory read request. They rely on maintaining a version number for …