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Area of Science:

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Computer Engineering
  • Materials Science

Background:

  • Existing circuit camouflaging methods increase complexity, area, energy consumption, and delay.
  • Reverse engineering poses a significant threat to integrated circuit security.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose an efficient hardware encryption technique with minimal overhead.
  • To leverage ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FeFET) technology for circuit security.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized FeFETs' threshold voltage programmability to create run-time reconfigurable inverter-buffer logic.
  • Implemented a peripheral programming scheme using existing scan chain logic for keybit distribution.
  • Integrated the reconfigurable logic as a hardware encryption key for encoding/decoding functional output.

Main Results:

  • Achieved an average encryption probability of 97.43%.
  • Introduced minimal delay increase: 2.24% on the most critical path and 3.67% on the sum of 100 critical paths.
  • Demonstrated negligible impact on critical path timing delay.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed FeFET-based hardware encryption is an efficient solution for integrated circuit security.
  • The technique effectively camouflages circuits against reverse engineering with low overhead.
  • The integrated programming scheme simplifies key distribution without specialized circuitry.