Hardware Trojan detection using path delay order encoding with process variation tolerance

Abstract

The outsourcing for fabrication introduces security threats, namely hardware Trojans (HTs). Many design-for-trust (DFT) techniques have been proposed to address such threats. However, many HT detection techniques are not effective due to the dependence on golden chips, limitation of useful information available and process variations. In this paper, we data-mine on path delay information and propose a variation-tolerant path delay order encoding technique to detect HTs.