Projects/2017
Hardware-Security ASIC Validation Platform
NYU Abu Dhabi · with Ozgur Sinanoglu's hardware-security group
Challenge, contribution, and outcome
CHALLENGE
Create a practical test platform for programming and validating a logic-locked 65 nm ARM Cortex-M0 ASIC.
MY CONTRIBUTION
Led schematic design, PCB layout, in-house fabrication, and initial testing of the custom ASIC validation board.
OUTCOME
Enabled physical testing of the locked processor: correct execution with a valid key and failure with an incorrect key.
Project overview
A custom PCB test platform for hardware-security research on a logic-locked ARM Cortex-M0 ASIC. I led schematic design, board layout, in-house fabrication, and initial hardware testing. The board supported UART programming and key activation, allowing the research team to compare processor behaviour with valid and invalid keys for the ACM CCS 2017 work.
System Record
- Application
- APPHardware Security
- Platforms
- PLATFORMCustom PCB / ASIC Test Rig
- Methods
- METHODPCB Design
- Outcomes
- OUTCOMEPeer-Reviewed Publication
- Period
- 2017
Development & Validation
- Eagle schematic, two-layer layout, and in-house fabrication in the Advanced Manufacturing and Electronics workshops — two revisions to a reliable UART/DIP-switch test rig.
- Validated locked processor silicon: correct execution with the valid key, failure with an incorrect one.
Credits & Collaborators
Nikolaos Giakoumidis
NYU Abu Dhabi
Electronics design · hardware validation
Ozgur Sinanoglu
NYU Abu Dhabi · Hardware Security Group
Principal Investigator
Hardware Security Group
NYU Abu Dhabi
Research partner
Publications & media
- Provably-Secure Logic Locking: From Theory to Practice
Publication
2017
Source · Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
Acknowledged hardware validation contribution
Additional Media
SOP-28 SOCKET — LOCKED PROCESSOR UNDER TEST — NYU Abu Dhabi · with Ozgur Sinanoglu's hardware-security group
Close-up of the populated chip-test PCB showing the SOP-28 test socket, DIP switch block, and illuminated seven-segment display