Building Trustworthy Systems Using Untrusted Components: A High-Level Synthesis Approach Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2016 IEEE. Trustworthiness of system-on-chip designs is undermined by malicious logic (Trojans) in third-party intellectual properties (3PIPs). In this paper, duplication, diversity, and isolation principles have been extended to detect build trustworthy systems using untrusted, potentially Trojan-infected 3PIPs. We use a diverse set of vendors to prevent collusions between the 3PIPs from the same vendor. We identify design constraints for Trojan detection to achieving detection, collusion prevention, and isolating the Trojan-infected 3PIP, and incorporate them during high-level synthesis. In addition, we develop techniques to reduce the number of vendors. The effectiveness of the proposed techniques is validated using the high-level synthesis benchmarks.

published proceedings

  • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

author list (cited authors)

  • Rajendran, J. J., Sinanoglu, O., & Karri, R.

citation count

  • 54

complete list of authors

  • Rajendran, Jeyavijayan JV||Sinanoglu, Ozgur||Karri, Ramesh

publication date

  • September 2016