Publikation
Detection of Hardware Trojans in SystemC HLS Designs via Coverage-guided Fuzzing
Hoang M. Le; Daniel Große; Niklas Bruns; Rolf Drechsler
In: Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE). Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE-2019), March 25-29, Florence, Italy, 2019.
Zusammenfassung
High-level Synthesis (HLS) is being increasingly adopted as a mean to raise design productivity. HLS designs, which can be automatically translated into RTL, are typically written in SystemC at a more abstract level. Hardware Trojan attacks and countermeasures, while well-known and well-researched for RTL and below, have been only recently considered for HLS. The paper makes a contribution to this emerging research area by proposing a novel detection approach for Hardware Trojans in SystemC HLS designs. The proposed approach is based on coverage-guided fuzzing, a new promising idea from software (security) testing research. The efficiency of the approach in identifying stealthy behavior is demonstrated on a set of open-source benchmarks.