Collaborative Research: CI-ADDO-NEW: TrustHub: Design of Trust Benchmarks, Hardware Validation Platforms and a Web-Based Dissemination Portal

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Objective:The objective of Trust-Hub project is to lead a community-wide movement toward stronger assurances inthe digital hardware industry. The Trust-Hub is a means for information sharing between researchers andpractitioners to accelerate the development of defenses against hardware-level attacks. This projectproposes the development of Trust-Hub, a central web-based repository for technical papers, benchmarks,hardware platforms, source codes, tools, and other information that accelerates hardware security researchand developments.Intellectual Merits:This project plans to develop benchmark circuits infected with hardware Trojans (called trustbenchmarks), create hardware platforms to validate trust benchmarks, and develop a web portal toaccelerate research and development in hardware security and trust. The project includes (i) creation of alarge set of static trust benchmarks, (ii) benchmark complexity analysis, (iii) procedures to dynamicallygenerate trust benchmarks with hard-to-detect Trojan instances, (iv) platforms for hardware emulation andvalidation of Trojan detection methods, (vii) a web-based repository called Trust-Hub, and (viii)comprehensive validation test suites.Broader Impacts:The results of this project would be of interest to fab-less semiconductor companies, US governmentagencies and university researchers worldwide. Benefits to the society include trustworthy electronics forhealthcare, defense, weather forecasting, finance, transportation, and automotive applications. Byintegrating the results of this project into existing courses and by offering new courses in theundergraduate and graduate curriculum, the PIs will impart cutting-edge engineering knowledge tostudents and improve their hardware design, security verification and test skills.