Alternative Title
Towards Multipronged On-chip Memory and Data Protection From Verification to Design and Test
Subject Area
Computer Engineering
Abstract
Modern System on Chips (SoCs) generally include embedded memories, and these memories may be vulnerable to malicious attacks such as hardware trojan horses (HTHs), test access port exploitation, and malicious software. This dissertation contributes verification as well as design obfuscation solutions aimed at design level detection of memory HTH circuits as well as obfuscation to prevent HTH triggering for embedded memory during functional operation. For malicious attack vectors stemming from test/debug interfaces, this dissertation presents novel solutions that enhance design verification and securitization of an IJTAG based test access interface. Such solutions can enhance SoC protection by preventing memory test instruments from adversarial access. To help with the test data collection of embedded memories that may improve SoC security and reliability, this dissertation contributes a memory test optimization unit (MTOU). To enhance functional memory protection, approaches to verify memory fault and security handling circuits are also presented.
Degree Date
Fall 12-17-2022
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Department
Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor
Jennifer Dworak
Number of Pages
193
Format
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Recommended Citation
Kan, Senwen and Dworak, Jennifer, "Towards Multipronged On-chip Memory and Data Protection From Verification to Design and Test" (2022). Computer Science and Engineering Theses and Dissertations. 27.
https://scholar.smu.edu/engineering_compsci_etds/27
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