LASCA: Learning Assisted Side Channel Delay Analysis for Hardware Trojan Detection

Ashkan Vakil1, Farnaz Behnia1, Ali Mirzaeian1, Houman Homayoun2, Naghmeh Karimi3, Avesta Sasan1
1George Mason University, 2University of California Davis, 3University of Maryland Baltimore County


Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a Learning Assisted Side Channel delay Analysis (LASCA) methodology for Hardware Trojan detection. Our proposed solution, unlike the prior art, does not require a Golden IC. Instead, it trains a Neural Network to act as a process tracking watchdog for correlating the static timing data (produced at design time) to the delay information obtained from clock frequency sweeping (at test time) for the purpose of Trojan detection. Using the LASCA flow, we detect close to 90% of Hardware Trojans in the simulated scenarios.