Reversing the Clock: Layout-Aware Recovery of Design Intent from Clock Distribution Networks

Hardware reverse engineering supports competitive analysis and hardware assurance by recovering information about an integrated circuit IC from its physical implementation. While existing techniques primarily recover the gate-level netlist, which represents logical functionality, they often...

Application Agnostic EM Side-Channel Emanations of the FPGA Clock Distribution Network

Electromagnetic side channels have been extensively utilized in non-invasive attacks or analyses to extract critical information from deployed systems. Most of the attacks or analyses are typically executed on cryptographic algorithms under the assumption that the underlying implementation remain...