Front-End-of-Line Attacks in Split Manufacturing Conference Paper

abstract

• 2017 IEEE. By splitting the manufacturing of integrated circuits into back-end-of-line (BEOL) and front-end-of-line (FEOL) at different foundries, the vulnerabilities to attacks by a untrusted foundry is considerably alleviated. Most previous works focus on the scenario of only BEOL attacks at untrusted FEOL foundries. In this work, we study a largely unexplored scenario, where FEOL attacks are launched by an untrusted BEOL foundry. A geometric pattern match attack and a machine learningbased attack technique are investigated. Defense techniques against the FEOL attacks are also discussed. The effectiveness of these techniques is demonstrated by experiments on benchmark circuits.

name of conference

• 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)

authors

• Rajendran, Jeyavijayan

published proceedings

• 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)

author list (cited authors)

• Wang, Y., Cao, T., Hu, J., & Rajendran, J.

citation count

• 9

complete list of authors

• Wang, Yujie||Cao, Tri||Hu, Jiang||Rajendran, Jeyavijayan

publication date

• January 2017

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Digest of Technical Papers  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/iccad.2017.8329993

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 9781538630938

start page

• 1

end page

• 8

volume

• 2017-November

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iccad.2017.8329993