TY - GEN
T1 - Tenacious hardware trojans due to high temperature in middle tiers of 3-D ICs
AU - Hasan, Syed Rafay
AU - Mossa, Siraj Fulum
AU - Elkeelany, Omar Sayed Ahmed
AU - Awwad, Falah
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/9/28
Y1 - 2015/9/28
N2 - Hardware security is a major concern in the intellectual property (IP) centric integrated circuits (IC). 3-D IC design augments IP centric designs. However, 3-D ICs suffer from high temperatures in their middle tiers due to long heat dissipation paths. We anticipate that this problem would exacerbate the hardware security issues in 3-D ICs. Because, high temperature leads to undesired timing characteristics in ICs. In this paper we provide a detailed analysis on how these delay variations can lead to non-ideal behavior of control paths. It is demonstrated that a hardware intruder can leverage this phenomenon to trigger the payload, without requiring a separate triggering circuit. Our simulation results show that a state machine can lead to temporary glitches long enough to cause malfunctioning at temperatures of 87°C or above, under nominal frequencies. The overall area overhead of the payload compared to a very small Mod-3 counter is 6%.
AB - Hardware security is a major concern in the intellectual property (IP) centric integrated circuits (IC). 3-D IC design augments IP centric designs. However, 3-D ICs suffer from high temperatures in their middle tiers due to long heat dissipation paths. We anticipate that this problem would exacerbate the hardware security issues in 3-D ICs. Because, high temperature leads to undesired timing characteristics in ICs. In this paper we provide a detailed analysis on how these delay variations can lead to non-ideal behavior of control paths. It is demonstrated that a hardware intruder can leverage this phenomenon to trigger the payload, without requiring a separate triggering circuit. Our simulation results show that a state machine can lead to temporary glitches long enough to cause malfunctioning at temperatures of 87°C or above, under nominal frequencies. The overall area overhead of the payload compared to a very small Mod-3 counter is 6%.
KW - 3-D IC
KW - hardware Trojan
KW - high temperature
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84962129732
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84962129732#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1109/MWSCAS.2015.7282148
DO - 10.1109/MWSCAS.2015.7282148
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84962129732
T3 - Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems
BT - IEEE 58th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 58th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS 2015
Y2 - 2 August 2015 through 5 August 2015
ER -