Area efficient camouflaging technique for securing IC reverse engineering.
PLoS One
; 16(11): e0257679, 2021.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-34735459
ABSTRACT
Reverse engineering is a burning issue in Integrated Circuit (IC) design and manufacturing. In the semiconductor industry, it results in a revenue loss of billions of dollars every year. In this work, an area efficient, high-performance IC camouflaging technique is proposed at the physical design level to combat the integrated circuit's reverse engineering. An attacker may not identify various logic gates in the layout due to similar image output. In addition, a dummy or true contact-based technique is implemented for optimum outcomes. A library of gates is proposed that contains the various camouflaged primitive gates developed by a combination of using the metal routing technique along with the dummy contact technique. This work shows the superiority of the proposed technique's performance matrix with those of existing works regarding resource burden, area, and delay. The proposed library is expected to make open source to help ASIC designers secure IC design and save colossal revenue loss.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Organization and Administration
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Security Measures
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Semiconductors
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Engineering
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
PLoS One
Journal subject:
CIENCIA
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MEDICINA
Year:
2021
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Bangladesh