A Tutorial on Design Obfuscation: from Transistors to Systems
It provides an accessible overview for non-specialists in hardware security, but is incremental as it synthesizes existing knowledge.
This tutorial explains recent advances in design obfuscation for integrated circuits, covering methods at layout, netlist, and chip levels, and discusses available tooling and fabrication logistics.
The recent advances in the area of design obfuscation are encouraging, but may present themselves as hard to read for a non-specialist audience. This tutorial uncovers these advances in a clear language, contrasting the approaches that can be implemented at layout level, in the netlist of a circuit, or even at chip level. This tutorial also highlights the available support, both from the tooling side and the logistics of fabricating an obfuscated integrated circuit.