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Hardware security threats and potential countermeasures in emerging 3D ICs

  • University of New Hampshire
  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

New hardware security threats are identified in emerging three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuits (ICs) and potential counter-measures are introduced. Trigger and payload mechanisms for future 3D hardware Trojans are predicted. Furthermore, a novel, network-on-chip based 3D obfuscation method is proposed to block the direct communication between two commercial dies in a 3D structure, thus thwarting reverse engineering attacks on the vertical dimension. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method effectively obfuscates the cross-plane communication by increasing the reverse engineering time by approximately 5× as compared to using direct through silicon via (TSV) connections. The proposed method consumes approximately one fifth the area and power of a typical network-on-chip designed in a 65 nm technology, exhibiting limited overhead.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGLSVLSI 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages69-74
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450342742
DOIs
StatePublished - May 18 2016
Event26th ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, GLSVLSI 2016 - Boston, United States
Duration: May 18 2016May 20 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, GLSVLSI
Volume18-20-May-2016

Conference

Conference26th ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, GLSVLSI 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoston
Period05/18/1605/20/16

Keywords

  • 3D ICs
  • Hardware security
  • Network-on-Chip

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