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...

Domain Adaptation for Image Classification of Defects in Semiconductor Manufacturing

In the semiconductor sector, due to high demand but also strong and increasing competition, time to market and quality are key factors in securing significant market share in various application areas. Thanks to the success of deep learning methods in recent years in the computer vision domain,...