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most citedChip-Chat: Challenges and Opportunities in Conversational Hardware Design

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cs.CR2021★ 15 cited

Examining Zero-Shot Vulnerability Repair with Large Language Models

Hammond Pearce, Benjamin Tan, Baleegh Ahmad +2

Human developers can produce code with cybersecurity bugs. Can emerging 'smart' code completion tools help repair those bugs? In this work, we examine the use of large language mod…

cs.CR2021★ 2 cited

Not All Fabrics Are Created Equal: Exploring eFPGA Parameters For IP Redaction

Jitendra Bhandari, Abdul Khader Thalakkattu Moosa, Benjamin Tan +6

Semiconductor design houses rely on third-party foundries to manufacture their integrated circuits (IC). While this trend allows them to tackle fabrication costs, it introduces sec…

cs.CR2021

Exploring eFPGA-based Redaction for IP Protection

Jitendra Bhandari, Abdul Khader Thalakkattu Moosa, Benjamin Tan +6

Recently, eFPGA-based redaction has been proposed as a promising solution for hiding parts of a digital design from untrusted entities, where legitimate end-users can restore funct…

cs.LG2021★ 7 cited

OpenABC-D: A Large-Scale Dataset For Machine Learning Guided Integrated Circuit Synthesis

Animesh Basak Chowdhury, Benjamin Tan, Ramesh Karri +1

Logic synthesis is a challenging and widely-researched combinatorial optimization problem during integrated circuit (IC) design. It transforms a high-level description of hardware…

cs.LO2021

Scaling Up Hardware Accelerator Verification using A-QED with Functional Decomposition

Saranyu Chattopadhyay, Florian Lonsing, Luca Piccolboni +12

Hardware accelerators (HAs) are essential building blocks for fast and energy-efficient computing systems. Accelerator Quick Error Detection (A-QED) is a recent formal technique wh…

cs.CR2021★ 22 cited

Asleep at the Keyboard? Assessing the Security of GitHub Copilot's Code Contributions

Hammond Pearce, Baleegh Ahmad, Benjamin Tan +2

There is burgeoning interest in designing AI-based systems to assist humans in designing computing systems, including tools that automatically generate computer code. The most nota…

eess.SY2021

Cyber Insurance Against Cyberattacks on Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

Samrat Acharya, Robert Mieth, Charalambos Konstantinou +2

Cyberattacks in the energy sector are commonplace. Load-altering cyberattacks launched via the manipulations of high-wattage appliances and assets are particularly alarming, as the…

cs.AR2021★ 12 cited

Optimizing the Use of Behavioral Locking for High-Level Synthesis

Christian Pilato, Luca Collini, Luca Cassano +3

The globalization of the electronics supply chain requires effective methods to thwart reverse engineering and IP theft. Logic locking is a promising solution, but there are many o…

cs.CR2021

FLAW3D: A Trojan-based Cyber Attack on the Physical Outcomes of Additive Manufacturing

Hammond Pearce, Kaushik Yanamandra, Nikhil Gupta +1

Additive Manufacturing (AM) systems such as 3D printers use inexpensive microcontrollers that rarely feature cybersecurity defenses. This is a risk, especially given the rising thr…