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most citedBenchmarking at the Frontier of Hardware Security: Lessons from Logic Locking

29 citations · 51 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.AI2026

AgenticTwin: An Agentic LLM Framework Integrated with Digital Twin for Anomaly Detection

Touseef Hasan, Mounika Ghanta, Souvika Sarkar +1

Digital twins are increasingly used to monitor and simulate the behavior of cyber-physical systems. Even with skilled operators, interpreting anomalies detected within digital twin…

cs.CR2026

SecureRAG-RTL: A Retrieval-Augmented, Multi-Agent, Zero-Shot LLM-Driven Framework for Hardware Vulnerability Detection

Touseef Hasan, Blessing Airehenbuwa, Nitin Pundir +2

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in natural language processing tasks, yet their application in hardware security verification remains limited due to…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

Understanding the Security Landscape of Embedded Non-Volatile Memories: A Comprehensive Survey

Zakia Tamanna Tisha, Ujjwal Guin

The modern semiconductor industry requires memory solutions that can keep pace with the high-speed demands of high-performance computing. Embedded non-volatile memories (eNVMs) add…

cs.CR2025★ 3 cited

Advancing Security with Digital Twins: A Comprehensive Survey

Blessing Airehenbuwa, Touseef Hasan, Souvika Sarkar +1

The proliferation of electronic devices has greatly transformed every aspect of human life, such as communication, healthcare, transportation, and energy. Unfortunately, the global…

cs.CR2024

Reward-based Blockchain Infrastructure for 3D IC Supply Chain Provenance

Sulyab Thottungal Valapu, Aritri Saha, Bhaskar Krishnamachari +2

In response to the growing demand for enhanced performance and power efficiency, the semiconductor industry has witnessed a paradigm shift toward heterogeneous integration, giving…

cs.CR2022★ 2 cited

Beware of Discarding Used SRAMs: Information is Stored Permanently

Joshua Hovanes, Yadi Zhong, Ujjwal Guin

Data recovery has long been a focus of the electronics industry for decades by security experts, focusing on hard disk recovery, a type of non-volatile memory. Unfortunately, none…

cs.CR2022

Complexity Analysis of the SAT Attack on Logic Locking

Yadi Zhong, Ujjwal Guin

Due to the adoption of horizontal business models following the globalization of semiconductor manufacturing, the overproduction of integrated circuits (ICs) and the piracy of inte…

cs.CR2022

AFIA: ATPG-Guided Fault Injection Attack on Secure Logic Locking

Yadi Zhong, Ayush Jain, M. Tanjidur Rahman +3

The outsourcing of the design and manufacturing of integrated circuits has raised severe concerns about the piracy of Intellectual Properties and illegal overproduction. Logic lock…

cs.CR2022

A Comprehensive Test Pattern Generation Approach Exploiting SAT Attack for Logic Locking

Yadi Zhong, Ujjwal Guin

The need for reducing manufacturing defect escape in today's safety-critical applications requires increased fault coverage. However, generating a test set using commercial automat…

cs.AR2021★ 4 cited

Special Session: Reliability Analysis for ML/AI Hardware

Shamik Kundu, Kanad Basu, Mehdi Sadi +4

Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are becoming pervasive in today's applications, such as autonomous vehicles, healthcare, aerospace, cybersecurity, and many c…

cs.CR2020

A Novel Tampering Attack on AES Cores with Hardware Trojans

Ayush Jain, Ujjwal Guin

The implementation of cryptographic primitives in integrated circuits (ICs) continues to increase over the years due to the recent advancement of semiconductor manufacturing and re…

cs.CR2020

ATPG-Guided Fault Injection Attacks on Logic Locking

Ayush Jain, Tanjidur Rahman, Ujjwal Guin

Logic Locking is a well-accepted protection technique to enable trust in the outsourced design and fabrication processes of integrated circuits (ICs) where the original design is m…

cs.CR2020★ 29 cited

Benchmarking at the Frontier of Hardware Security: Lessons from Logic Locking

Benjamin Tan, Ramesh Karri, Nimisha Limaye +33

Integrated circuits (ICs) are the foundation of all computing systems. They comprise high-value hardware intellectual property (IP) that are at risk of piracy, reverse-engineering,…

cs.CR2020

A Novel Topology-Guided Attack and Its Countermeasure Towards Secure Logic Locking

Yuqiao Zhang, Ayush Jain, Pinchen Cui +2

The outsourcing of the design and manufacturing of integrated circuits (ICs) in the current horizontal semiconductor integration flow has posed various security threats due to the…

cs.DC2020★ 1 cited

Yield Loss Reduction and Test of AI and Deep Learning Accelerators

Mehdi Sadi, Ujjwal Guin

With data-driven analytics becoming mainstream, the global demand for dedicated AI and Deep Learning accelerator chips is soaring. These accelerators, designed with densely packed…

cs.CR2019★ 11 cited

TAAL: Tampering Attack on Any Key-based Logic Locked Circuits

Ayush Jain, Ziqi Zhou, Ujjwal Guin

Due to the globalization of semiconductor manufacturing and test processes, the system-on-a-chip (SoC) designers no longer design the complete SoC and manufacture chips on their ow…