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A Digital Design Flow for Secure Integrated Circuits

A Digital Design Flow for Secure Integrated Circuits. Written By: Kris Tiri and Ingrid Verbauwhede Presented By: William Whitehouse. Secure Digital Design Flow. Purpose Wave Dynamic Differential Logic Differential Pair Routing Proposed Design Flow Experimental Results Comments. Purpose.

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A Digital Design Flow for Secure Integrated Circuits

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  1. A Digital Design Flow for Secure Integrated Circuits Written By: Kris Tiri and Ingrid Verbauwhede Presented By: William Whitehouse

  2. Secure Digital Design Flow • Purpose • Wave Dynamic Differential Logic • Differential Pair Routing • Proposed Design Flow • Experimental Results • Comments

  3. Purpose Small integrated circuits are vulnerable to side-channel attacks (SCA). The authors present a digital VLSI design flow to create secure power-analysis-attack-resistant ICs. The proposed design flow uses a technique to balance the power consumption of the logic gates. It is independent of the cryptographic algorithm or arithmetic implemented.

  4. Wave Dynamic Differential Logic • Wave Dynamic Differential Logic (WDDL) was chosen for its constant power consumption • WDDL Library contains 37 of 53 basic logic functions WDDL AND-OR-INVERT example

  5. WDDL Output Voltage • Demonstration of the output voltage for a WDDL gate:

  6. WDDL Load Capacitance • Load capacitances of differential outputs must be matched to achieve constant power consumption • Load capacitance is made of: • Intrinsic output capacitance • Interconnect capacitance • Intrinsic input capacitance • With the shrinking of the channel length of the transistors the interconnect capacitance becomes the dominant capacitance

  7. Interconnect Capacitance • The WDDL true and false output interconnects are routed in parallel such that they are: • on adjacent tracks of the routing grid • on the same layers • the same length • Interconnect must have the same parasitic effects (resistance and capacitance) • Interconnects must be routed to control crosstalk

  8. Differential Pair Routing • To add the differential pair routing to the secure design flow the authors split the routing into two steps: • Fat Wire Routing • Interconnect Decomposition

  9. Interconnect Decomposition • This figure illustrates the interconnect decomposition:

  10. Capacitance Comparisons • Variation of the input capacitance of true/false WDDL gates is within 10% • Variation between true/false interconnect capacitance of differential pair routing is within 20% • Variation between true/false interconnect capacitance of regular routing of true/false gates is 50%

  11. Proposed Design Flow • The following is the authors’ proposed secure digital design flow:

  12. Additional Design Flow Stages • New stages include Cell Substitution and Interconnect Decomposition:

  13. Experimental Results • Subset of DES algorithm

  14. Transient Simulation • A differential power analysis (DPA) attack was performed on the two designs.

  15. Prototype IC • Secure and Insecure AES Core were design and fabricated on the same die:

  16. Power Analysis of Prototype IC

  17. DPA Attack on Prototype IC

  18. Comments • Good case for use of differential gates • Designs SCA resistant ICs • Easy to add into digital design flow and not much overhead • Independent of cryptographic algorithm • Larger area and power consumption • Much Lower throughput

  19. Improvements • Only use WDDL gates and differential pair routing on some blocks of the design • The WDDL library only has 70% of basic logic functions in a standard cell library

  20. Questions • If you have any questions please email me at: wdwhiteh@iastate.edu

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