Visible to the public Partial Reconfiguration for Run-time Memory Faults and Hardware Trojan Attacks Detection

TitlePartial Reconfiguration for Run-time Memory Faults and Hardware Trojan Attacks Detection
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2022
AuthorsLi, Ying, Chen, Lan, Wang, Jian, Gong, Guanfei
Conference Name2022 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)
Date Publishedjun
Keywordscompositionality, Costs, detection, fault, Hardware, Hardware Trojans, Memory, Memory management, Metrics, Prototypes, pubcrawl, Real-time Systems, resilience, Resiliency, Scalability, scalable verification, system-on-chip, Throughput
AbstractEmbedded memory are important components in system-on-chip, which may be crippled by aging and wear faults or Hardware Trojan attacks to compromise run-time security. The current built-in self-test and pre-silicon verification lack efficiency and flexibility to solve this problem. To this end, we address such vulnerabilities by proposing a run-time memory security detecting framework in this paper. The solution builds mainly upon a centralized security detection controller for partially reconfigurable inspection content, and a static memory wrapper to handle access conflicts and buffering testing cells. We show that a field programmable gate array prototype of the proposed framework can pursue 16 memory faults and 3 types Hardware Trojans detection with one reconfigurable partition, whereas saves 12.7% area and 2.9% power overhead compared to a static implementation. This architecture has more scalable capability with little impact on the memory accessing throughput of the original chip system in run-time detection.
DOI10.1109/HOST54066.2022.9840090
Citation Keyli_partial_2022