Issue 5, 2023

Hardware Trojans based on two-dimensional memtransistors

Abstract

Hardware Trojans (HTs) have emerged as a major security threat for integrated circuits (ICs) owing to the involvement of untrustworthy actors in the globally distributed semiconductor supply chain. HTs are intentional malicious modifications, which remain undetectable through simple electrical measurements but can cause catastrophic failure in the functioning of ICs in mission critical applications. In this article, we show how two-dimensional (2D) material based in-memory computing elements such as memtransistors can be used as hardware Trojans. We found that logic gates based on 2D memtransistors can be made to malfunction by exploiting their inherent programming capabilities. While we use 2D memtransistor-based ICs as the testbed for our demonstration, the results are equally applicable to any state-of-the-art and emerging in-memory computing technologies.

Graphical abstract: Hardware Trojans based on two-dimensional memtransistors

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
07 Dec. 2022
Accepted
25 Janv. 2023
First published
26 Janv. 2023

Nanoscale Horiz., 2023,8, 603-615

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Hardware Trojans based on two-dimensional memtransistors

A. Wali, H. Ravichandran and S. Das, Nanoscale Horiz., 2023, 8, 603 DOI: 10.1039/D2NH00568A

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