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Progressive and Secure Performance Unlocking for Digital Designs
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Lokare, Renuka
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1479819469675449
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2016, MS, University of Cincinnati, Engineering and Applied Science: Computer Engineering.
Abstract
With increasing threats such as hardware Trojans, reverse engineering and side channel attacks, hardware security has gained importance over the last decade. Design gets exposed to attacks as soon as it comes out of the design process and goes into a third-party fabrication unit. To eliminate unauthorized usage, piracy and overproduction, IP owners include additional hardware, normally in the form of key gates, to the basic functionality of an IC. The design provides logically correct output only when a correct key (or a sequence of keys) is applied. In our work, by controlling the gap between the locked and unlocked states of an IC, we have offered progressive performance unlocking of a design along with secure usage of an IC. A key comparison module authenticates the usage of an IC, uniquely identifies it and unlocks a specific mode of operation based on the user requirement. We have presented three different methods (clock enabler, ring oscillator based frequency synthesizer and progressive power unlocking) for tuning the performance and power at run-time based on the response from the key comparison module. We have proposed a secure IP owner to user interaction which not only helps the IP owner to get complete controllability over the usage of an IC but also makes the post-fabrication testing secure. We have analysed the proposed architecture on the ISCAS99 benchmark circuits and a real-time image normalization application.
Committee
Ranganadha Vemuri, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Wen-Ben Jone, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Carla Purdy, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Pages
93 p.
Subject Headings
Computer Engineering
Keywords
Progressive Unlocking
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Performance
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Frequency Synthesizer
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Response Time Tuning
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Power Tuning
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Digital Design Authentication
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Lokare, R. (2016).
Progressive and Secure Performance Unlocking for Digital Designs
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1479819469675449
APA Style (7th edition)
Lokare, Renuka.
Progressive and Secure Performance Unlocking for Digital Designs.
2016. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1479819469675449.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Lokare, Renuka. "Progressive and Secure Performance Unlocking for Digital Designs." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1479819469675449
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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