DETER: Design for Trust utilizing Rareness Reduction. (arXiv:2302.08984v1 [cs.CR])

Increasing design complexity and reduced time-to-market have motivated
manufacturers to outsource some parts of the System-on-Chip (SoC) design flow
to third-party vendors. This provides an opportunity for attackers to introduce
hardware Trojans by constructing stealthy triggers consisting of rare events
(e.g., rare signals, states, and transitions). There are promising test
generation-based hardware Trojan detection techniques that rely on the
activation of rare events. In this paper, we investigate rareness reduction as
a design-for-trust solution to make it harder for an …

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