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Most hardware manufacturers outsource the fabrication of their integrated circuits (ICs) to third party foundries in order to reduce the cost of silicon chip fabrication. This increases the vulnerability to malicious activities. Third party foundries may modify the circuit’s design or its physical parameters. These modifications are known as Hardware Trojan Horses (HTHs). An adversary can insert a Trojan in the design to disable and/or destroy a system, or leak information to the adversary. Several Methods are proposed for HTH Detection, and Design for Hardware Trust (DfHT) in the last decade. However, the lack of a comprehensive approach in this area is sensed. Moreover, the previously... 

In recent years, hardware Trojans (HTs) have become one of the main challenging concerns within the chain of manufacturing digital integrated circuit chips. Because of their diversity in chips, HTs are difficult to detect and locate. This thesis attempted to propose a new improved method for detection and localization of HTs based on the real-time logical values of nodes. The algorithm extracts the nodes with special attributes. At the next stage, the nodes with the greatest similarity in terms of logical value are selected as targets. Depending on the size of the circuit, the extraction continues until a sufficient number of similar nodes has been selected. The logical relationship between... 

With constant increase in the rate of VLSI circuits manufactured in sites separate from the designers and computer architects, global concern regarding the possibility of integration of malware by the manufacturing foundries has arisen. Particularly, one main issue that affects reliability of the chips is modifications or additions with malicious intention,known as Hardware Trojans, which are easily applicable during design and manufacturing phase of chips. There has been an increasing fraud in chip-set manufacturing. Hardware Trojans may leak confidential information outside the chip, to the attacker, may alter the function of circuit, or completely fail a system. Hence search for new... 

Hardware Trojans have emerged as a major concern for integrated circuits in recent years. As a result, detecting Trojans has become an important issue in critical applications, such as finance and health. In this work, a trusted platform for detecting Trojans in FPGA bitstreams is presented. The proposed methodology takes advantage of increased Trojan activation, caused by transition aware partitioning of the circuit, while it benefits partial reconfiguration feature of FPGAs to reduce area overhead. Simulation results, performed for the transition probability thresholds of 〖10〗^(-4) and 〖2×10〗^(-5), show that this method increases the ratio of the number of transitions in the Trojan...