As designers increasingly rely on third-party intellectual property (IP) cores and outsourcing in the integrated circuit (IC) design and manufacturing process, security vulnerabilities have risen. The talk presented High-Level Design for Trust techniques developed by the speaker’s team to address these threats: locking of designs and secure sourcing of IPs for high-level integration.

Implementing built-in locking mechanisms aims to prevent reverse engineering. Secure Sourcing thwarts Trojan insertion in third-party IPs. The talk wrapped up by emphasising the importance of hardware security from economic, security, and safety standpoints.