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most citedChallenging the Security of Logic Locking Schemes in the Era of Deep Learning: A Neuroevolutionary Approach

85 citations · 195 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.AR2025

Automatic Microarchitecture-Aware Custom Instruction Design for RISC-V Processors

Evgenii Rezunov, Niko Zurstraßen, Lennart M. Reimann +1

An Application-Specific Instruction Set Processor(ASIP) is a specialized microprocessor that provides a trade-off between the programmability of a General Purpose Processor (GPP) a…

cs.SE2025

Leveraging SystemC-TLM-based Virtual Prototypes for Embedded Software Fuzzing

Chiara Ghinami, Jonas Winzer, Nils Bosbach +4

SystemC-based virtual prototypes have emerged as widely adopted tools to test software ahead of hardware availability, reducing the time-to-market and improving software reliabilit…

cs.ET2025

Optimizing Binary and Ternary Neural Network Inference on RRAM Crossbars using CIM-Explorer

Rebecca Pelke, José Cubero-Cascante, Nils Bosbach +5

Using Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) crossbars in Computing-in-Memory (CIM) architectures offers a promising solution to overcome the von Neumann bottleneck. Due to non-idea…

cs.AR2025

Introducing Instruction-Accurate Simulators for Performance Estimation of Autotuning Workloads

Rebecca Pelke, Nils Bosbach, Lennart M. Reimann +1

Accelerating Machine Learning (ML) workloads requires efficient methods due to their large optimization space. Autotuning has emerged as an effective approach for systematically ev…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

The Impact of Logic Locking on Confidentiality: An Automated Evaluation

Lennart M. Reimann, Evgenii Rezunov, Dominik Germek +4

Logic locking secures hardware designs in untrusted foundries by incorporating key-driven gates to obscure the original blueprint. While this method safeguards the integrated circu…

cs.CR2024

Exploiting the Lock: Leveraging MiG-V's Logic Locking for Secret-Data Extraction

Lennart M. Reimann, Yadu Madhukumar Variyar, Lennet Huelser +3

The MiG-V was designed for high-security applications and is the first commercially available logic-locked RISC-V processor on the market. In this context logic locking was used to…

cs.CR2024

QTFlow: Quantitative Timing-Sensitive Information Flow for Security-Aware Hardware Design on RTL

Lennart M. Reimann, Anshul Prashar, Chiara Ghinami +4

In contemporary Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, security often takes a backseat to the primary goals of power, performance, and area optimization. Commonly, the security…

cs.CR2023

SoftFlow: Automated HW-SW Confidentiality Verification for Embedded Processors

Lennart M. Reimann, Jonathan Wiesner, Dominik Sisejkovic +2

Despite its ever-increasing impact, security is not considered as a design objective in commercial electronic design automation (EDA) tools. This results in vulnerabilities being o…

cs.CR2023

Automated Information Flow Analysis for Integrated Computing-in-Memory Modules

Lennart M. Reimann, Felix Staudigl, Rainer Leupers

Novel non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies offer high-speed and high-density data storage. In addition, they overcome the von Neumann bottleneck by enabling computing-in-memory (…

cs.CR2022

Quantitative Information Flow for Hardware: Advancing the Attack Landscape

Lennart M. Reimann, Sarp Erdönmez, Dominik Sisejkovic +1

Security still remains an afterthought in modern Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, which solely focus on enhancing performance and reducing the chip size. Typically, the se…

cs.CR2021★ 25 cited

QFlow: Quantitative Information Flow for Security-Aware Hardware Design in Verilog

Lennart M. Reimann, Luca Hanel, Dominik Sisejkovic +2

The enormous amount of code required to design modern hardware implementations often leads to critical vulnerabilities being overlooked. Especially vulnerabilities that compromise…

cs.CR2021★ 55 cited

Deceptive Logic Locking for Hardware Integrity Protection against Machine Learning Attacks

Dominik Sisejkovic, Farhad Merchant, Lennart M. Reimann +1

Logic locking has emerged as a prominent key-driven technique to protect the integrity of integrated circuits. However, novel machine-learning-based attacks have recently been intr…

cs.CR2021★ 29 cited

Logic Locking at the Frontiers of Machine Learning: A Survey on Developments and Opportunities

Dominik Sisejkovic, Lennart M. Reimann, Elmira Moussavi +2

In the past decade, a lot of progress has been made in the design and evaluation of logic locking; a premier technique to safeguard the integrity of integrated circuits throughout…

cs.AR2021

ANDROMEDA: An FPGA Based RISC-V MPSoC Exploration Framework

Farhad Merchant, Dominik Sisejkovic, Lennart M. Reimann +3

With the growing demands of consumer electronic products, the computational requirements are increasing exponentially. Due to the applications' computational needs, the computer ar…

cs.CR2020★ 85 cited

Challenging the Security of Logic Locking Schemes in the Era of Deep Learning: A Neuroevolutionary Approach

Dominik Sisejkovic, Farhad Merchant, Lennart M. Reimann +3

Logic locking is a prominent technique to protect the integrity of hardware designs throughout the integrated circuit design and fabrication flow. However, in recent years, the sec…