Era of sentinel tech: Charting hardware security landscapes through post-silicon innovation, threat mitigation and future trajectories

MBR Srinivas, E Konguvel - IEEE Access, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To meet the demanding requirements of VLSI design, including improved speed, reduced
power consumption, and compact architectures, various IP cores from trusted and untrusted …

ICMarks: A Robust Watermarking Framework for Integrated Circuit Physical Design IP Protection

R Zhang, RS Rajarathnam, DZ Pan… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Physical design watermarking on contemporary integrated circuit (IC) layout encodes
signatures without considering the dense connections and design constraints, which could …

GEM-water: generation of em-based watermark for SoC IP validation with hidden FSMs

PP Sarker, U Das, MB Monjil… - … for Testing and …, 2023‏ - dl.asminternational.org
Intellectual property (IP) core reuse is a common practice for accelerating new product
development in modern system-on-chip (SoC) architectures. However, reusing and sharing …

Hardware security against IP piracy using secure fingerprint encrypted fused amino-acid biometric with facial anthropometric signature

A Sengupta, A Anshul, AK Singh - Microprocessors and Microsystems, 2025‏ - Elsevier
In the era of modern global design supply chain, the emergence of hardware threats is on
the rise. Conventional hardware security techniques may fall short in terms of offering …

Michscan: Black-Box Neural Network Integrity Checking at Runtime Through Power Analysis

R Paul, M Zuzak - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.10174, 2025‏ - arxiv.org
As neural networks are increasingly used for critical decision-making tasks, the threat of
integrity attacks, where an adversary maliciously alters a model, has become a significant …

SoC Security Verification Using Fuzz, Penetration, and AI Testing

M Tehranipoor, K Zamiri Azar, N Asadizanjani… - Hardware Security: A …, 2024‏ - Springer
The ever-increasing usage and application of system-on-chips (SoCs) has resulted in the
tremendous modernization of these architectures. For a modern SoC design, with the …

Rethinking Hardware Watermark

M Tehranipoor, K Zamiri Azar, N Asadizanjani… - Hardware Security: A …, 2024‏ - Springer
Intellectual property (IP) cores are essential to creating modern system-on-chips (SoCs).
Protecting the IPs deployed in modern SoCs has become more difficult as the IP houses …

Secure Physical Design

M Tehranipoor, K Zamiri Azar, N Asadizanjani… - Hardware Security: A …, 2024‏ - Springer
An integrated circuit is subject to a number of attacks including information leakage, side-
channel attacks, fault injection, malicious change, reverse engineering, and piracy. The …