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Design of Accurate Low-Cost On-Chip Structures for Protecting Integrated Circuits Against Recycling

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IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Volume 24, Issue 4

Pages 1233 - 1246

https://doi.org/10.1109/TVLSI.2015.2466551

Published: 01 April 2016 Publication History

Abstract

The recycling of electronic components has become a major industrial and governmental concern, as it could potentially impact the security and reliability of a wide variety of electronic systems. It is extremely challenging to detect a recycled integrated circuit (IC) that is already used for a very short period of time because the process variations outpace the degradation caused by aging, especially in lower technology nodes. In this paper, we propose a suite of solutions, based on lightweight negative bias temperature instability (NBTI)-aware ring oscillators (ROs), for combating die and IC recycling (CDIR) when ICs are used for a very short duration. The proposed solutions are implemented in the 90-nm technology node. The simulation results demonstrate that our newly proposed NBTI-aware multiple pair RO-based CDIRs can detect ICs used only for a few hours.

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IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems Volume 24, Issue 4

April 2016

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