IC Hardware Security and Trust

Catalog description

Analyze hardware security/trust and be able to implement various countermeasures to improve trust for hardware IC systems. Topics include IC design flow/lifecycle, trust issues at each stage of the IC lifecycle, attack methodologies that threaten HW IC systems, countermeasures to improve trust for HW IC systems, improving Trust for both ASIC and FPGA based systems. Prerequisite(s): (Undergraduate level EE 2000 Minimum Grade of D and Undergraduate level EE 2000L Minimum Grade of D) or (Undergraduate level CEG 3320 Minimum Grade of D and Undergraduate level CEG 3320L Minimum Grade of D) and (Undergraduate level EE 4540 Minimum Grade of D and Undergraduate level EE 4540L Minimum Grade of D) or (Undergraduate level CEG 4322 Minimum Grade of D and Undergraduate level CEG 4322L Minimum Grade of D) Corequisite(s): CEG4326L