Elect Engr & Computer Science - Hardware Security and Trust

Catalog description

This course will investigate various security and trust issues related to integrated circuits and systems during their design and manufacturing process, as well as during field operation. A wide range of threats including piracy, reverse engineering, hardware Trojan insertion, side-channel attack, micro-architectural vulnerabilities, and various invasive non-invasive attacks will be introduced. Potential hardware and software-based countermeasures to detect and prevent these attacks will be studied. Implementation of design-time solutions like physically unclonable functions (PUFs), true random number generator (TRNG), security monitors, hardware obfuscation, and many others will be covered. This course will also cover the fundamentals of hardware security research. Student cannot receive credit for both EECS 683 and EECS 783. Prerequisite: EECS 388 and upper-level EECS eligibility.