Hardware

Post Silicon Validation of Analog/Mixed Signal/RF Circuits and Systems: Recent Advances

Technology scaling along with unprecedented levels of device integration has led to increasing numbers of analog/mixed-signal/RF design bugs escaping into silicon. Such bugs are manifested under specific system-on-chip (SoC) operating conditions and …

Targeting Hardware Trojans in Mixed-Signal Circuits for Security

The proliferation of third-party silicon manufacturing has increased the vulnerability of integrated circuits to malicious insertion of hardware for the purpose of leaking secret information or even rendering the circuits useless while deployed in …

Adaptive Testing of Analog/RF Circuits Using Hardware Extracted FSM Models

The test generation problem for analog/RF circuits has been largely intractable due to the fact that repetitive circuit simulation for test stimulus optimization is extremely time-consuming. As a consequence, it is difficult, if not impossible, to …

Trojan Detection in Digital Systems Using Current Sensing of Pulse Propagation in Logic Gates

Outsourcing of chip manufacturing to untrusted foundries and using third party IPs in design, have opened the possibility of inserting malicious hardware Trojans into the circuit. As excitation of Trojan is extremely rare, it is almost impossible to …

Challenge Engineering and Design of Analog Push Pull Amplifier Based Physically Unclonable Function for Hardware Security

In the recent past, Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have been proposed as a way of implementing security in modern ICs. PUFs are hardware designs that exploit the randomness in silicon manufacturing processes to create IC-specific signatures …