An Automated Framework for Board-level Trojan Benchmarking

Understand

Economic and operational advantages have led the supply chain of printed circuit boards (PCBs) to incorporate various untrusted entities.

• Any of the untrusted entities are capable of introducing malicious alterations to facilitate a functional failure or leakage of secret information during field operation.
• While researchers have been investigating the threat of malicious modification within the scale of individual microelectronic components, the possibility of a board-level malicious manipulation has essentially been unexplored.
• In the absence of standard benchmarking solutions, prospective countermeasures for PCB trust assurance are likely to utilize homegrown representation of the attacks that undermines their evaluation and does not provide scope for comparison with other techniques.