Journal of South China University of Technology(Natural Science Edition) ›› 2012, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (6): 6-10.

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Side-Channel Analysis-Based Detection Approach of Hardware Trojans

Wang Li-wei1,2  Luo Hong-wei2  Yao Ruo-he1   

  1. 1. School of Electronic and Information Engineering,South China University of Technology,Guangzhou 510640,Guangdong,China; 2. Science and Technology on Reliability Physics and Application of Electronic Component Laboratory,The Fifth Electronics Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology,Guangzhou 510610,Guangdong,China
  • Received:2011-08-14 Revised:2012-03-14 Online:2012-06-25 Published:2012-05-03
  • Contact: 王力纬(1982-) ，男，博士后，高级工程师，主要从事微电子可靠性研究． E-mail:wanglw@ ceprei.com
  • About author:王力纬(1982-) ，男，博士后，高级工程师，主要从事微电子可靠性研究．
  • Supported by:

    总装备部预研项目( 51308040413) ; 总装备部元器件共性课题( 1004GK0023)

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Abstract:

During the fabrication of integrated circuit ( IC) chips in untrusted foundries,malicious circuits may be inserted as hardware Trojans,which results in a significant risk of trustworthiness and reliability degradation of the chips. As such Trojan circuits are difficult to detect using conventional strategies,a nondestructive side-channel analysis-based detection approach is proposed,which employs the algorithm of singular value decomposition to analyze
and statistically process the transient power of IC chips. Validation results of the approach on FPGA chips show that,even in the presence of big noise and process variation,the proposed approach is effective in detecting the hardware Trojans that are 2 orders of magnitude smaller than the original circuit.

Key words: hardware Trojans, side-channel analysis, singular value decomposition

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