SEMINAR: Supply Chain Vulnerabilities for ICs and Mitigation Through Design-for-Trust.
Guest: Özgür Sinanoğlu, NYU Abu Dhabi Center for Cybersecurity
Title: Supply Chain Vulnerabilities for ICs and Mitigation Through Design-for-Trust.
Abstract: The globalization of Integrated Circuit (IC) design and manufacturing is making designers and users of ICs reassess their trust in hardware. As the IC design flow spans the globe-driven by cost-conscious consumer electronics, hardware is increasingly prone to reverse engineering, Intellectual Property (IP) piracy, and malicious modifications (i.e., hardware trojans). An attacker, anywhere within the global design flow, can reverse engineer the functionality of an IC/IP, steal and claim ownership of the IP, or introduce counterfeits into the supply chain. Moreover, an untrusted IC fab may overbuild ICs and sell them illegally. Finally, rogue elements in the fabs may insert hardware trojans into the design without the knowledge of the designer or the end-user of the IC; this additional functionality may subsequently be exploited to introduce errors in the results, steal sensitive information, or incapacitate a fielded system. The semiconductor industry routinely loses $billions annually due to these attacks.
This talk will explain various forms of threats that the electronic chip supply chain is up against, as well as one particular defense against these threats—logic locking—by covering its basics and evolution.
Bio: Ozgur Sinanoglu is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi where he is also the Associate Dean of Engineering. He earned his B.S. degrees, one in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and one in Computer Engineering, both from Bogazici University, Turkey in 1999. He obtained his MS and PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from University of California San Diego in 2001 and 2004, respectively. He has industry experience at Texas Instruments, IBM and Qualcomm, and has been with NYU Abu Dhabi since 2010. During his PhD, he won the IBM PhD fellowship award twice. He is also the recipient of the best paper awards at IEEE VLSI Test Symposium 2011 and ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security 2013. Sinanoglu received the inaugural NYUAD Distinguished Research Award in 2021. Also in 2021, he was inducted into the Mohammed bin Rashid Academy of Science in the UAE. Prof. Sinanoglu’s research interests include design-for-test, design-for-security and design-for-trust for VLSI circuits, where he has around 300 conference and journal papers, and 20 issued and pending US Patents. Sinanoglu has given more than a dozen tutorials on hardware security and trust in leading chip design automation conferences. His recent research in hardware security and trust is being funded by US National Science Foundation, US Department of Defense, Semiconductor Research Corporation, Intel Corp, and Mubadala Technology.