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Title:
Emerging Spintronic Device (ASL) and Transistor (SiNW) in Hardware Security |
Abstract:
Due to the globalization of Integrated Circuit in the semiconductor industry and the outsourcing of chip manufacturing, third Party Intellectual Properties (3PIPs) become vulnerable to IC piracy, reverse engineering attack, counterfeit IC, and hardware Trojans. Thwarting such attacks can be done via leveraging logic locking methods. Unfortunately, strong resilient methods require significant overheads. Side-channel-based attacks further complicate the situation via adding other possible attacks after the IC manufacturing. These attacks can be prevented by incorporating additional hardware resources; however, this may make fabricating IC impractical, especially when there are area and power constraints.
In this talk, we would like to talk about the advantages of using the unique feature in emerging silicon nanowire (SiNW) field-effect transistors (FETs) and All Spin Logic (ASL) devices in order to provide ICs that can resist many IC attacks. Such method is based on exchanging some or all logic gates in the original design with a set of polymorphic gates (PLGs), designed using either SiNW FETs or ASL devices. We will show how such devices can increase the security level of the chip to robustly thwart all existing attacks with small penalties. Then, we will evaluate the effectiveness of such emerging devices and subject them to a thorough security analysis. We will also evaluate the performance of the technique and show that it demands very small overheads.
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Biography:
Qutaiba Alasad received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Engineering from Mosul University, Iraq, in 2007 and 2009, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA in 2020. Currently, he is the head of Petroleum Systems Control Engineering Department in Tikrit University since Oct 2020. His research focuses on the areas of trustworthy hardware, protecting the design of IC and IP, reverse engineering countermeasures, secured hardware using emerging technology, 3D-IC design, and Cybersecurity. He is active reviewer in many top journals and conferences, e.g., IEEE Transactions on – Computers and – CAD and Hardware and Systems Security – Springer journals, and DAC and GLSVLSI conferences. |