We introduce the first active hardware metering scheme that aims to protect integrated
circuits (IC) intellectual property (IP) against piracy and runtime tampering. The novel …

Within-die parameter variation poses a major challenge to high-performance
microprocessor design, negatively impacting a processor's frequency and leakage power …

Aggressive supply voltage scaling to below the device threshold voltage provides significant
energy and leakage power reduction in logic and SRAM circuits. Consequently, it is a …

Hardware Trojan horses (HTHs) are the malicious altering of hardware specification or
implementation in such a way that its functionality is altered under a set of conditions defined …

System security has emerged as a premier design requirement. While there has been an
enormous body of impressive work on testing integrated circuits (ICs) desiderata such as …

In this paper, the effect of process variations on delay is analyzed in depth for both static and
dynamic CMOS logic styles. Analysis allows for gaining an insight into the delay …

Aggressive scaling of semiconductor process technology over the last several decades has
resulted in creation of many new products, such as computers, camera, cell phones, and …

Emerging microsystems such as portable and implantable medical electronics, wireless
microsensors and next-generation portable multimedia devices demand a dramatic …

With process variation becoming a growing concern in deep submicron technologies, the
ability to efficiently obtain an accurate estimate of failure probability of SRAM components is …

In this paper, a novel class of power analysis attacks to cryptographic circuits is presented.
These attacks aim at recovering the secret key of a cryptographic core from measurements …