Hardware Security

This module delves into vulnerabilities in digital system design, covering topics such as digital system specification, implementation, function simplification, sequential system specification, and vulnerabilities in digital logic design. The focus is on understanding the basics and potential vulnerabilities in digital system design.

Explore the essentials of design intellectual property protection in this module. Gain knowledge about IP protection, watermarking, fingerprinting, hardware metering, and the importance of protecting design intellectual property.

Uncover the world of physical attacks and modular exponentiation in this module. Understand physical attacks, countermeasures, secure system building, modular exponentiation in cryptography, implementation, vulnerability, and Montgomery reduction.

This module focuses on side channel attacks, including memory vulnerabilities, cache attacks, power analysis, and countermeasures. The discussion also extends to modified modular exponentiation and associated countermeasures.

Discover hardware trojan detection and trusted IC design in this module, covering hardware trojan taxonomy, detection overview, methods, and trusted IC design with hardware trojan prevention. Gain insight into the critical aspects of hardware trojan detection and trusted IC design.

Gain knowledge about FPGA implementation of cryptography, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures in FPGA systems, the role of hardware in security and trust, as well as physical unclonable functions (PUF) basics, RO PUF, and good practices in this module.

Prepare for the final exam by revisiting the key concepts covered throughout the course, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of hardware security.