This three-year, $221,204 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at North Carolina A&T State University to develop an ensemble of countermeasures addressing hardware Trojans implanted in integrated circuit thermal sensors. Hardware Trojans pose risks to computing system security, reliability, and performance. While detection methods exist, each has limitations when used individually at the design, test, or runtime stages of integrated circuit development. This project will take a cooperative approach, applying detection methods at both the test and runtime stages to overcome individual method limitations. If test-time statistical analysis cannot detect a small Trojan due to low footprint, runtime methods will identify and isolate compromised sensors. The researchers will also estimate temperatures for isolated sensors to maintain proper thermal and power management. The work addresses vulnerabilities across edge computing, mobile, wearable, data center and supercomputing systems and furthers the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program goals of supporting foundational computing research.
Mod # | Description | Reason For Modification | Federal Obligation (Click to sort descending) | Date (Click to sort ascending) |
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| Not listed | $221.2k | 7/30/22 |