Trust in Integrated Circuits

Abstract

DARPA's TRUST in Integrated Circuits program is directed at ensuring trust in integrated circuits that are designed and fabricated under untrusted conditions. This issue has been identified in a recent Defense Science Board study [1] and the problems described in the study are becoming more acute. The majority of Integrated Circuits (ICs) used in complex modern military systems are made off-shore. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA s) are the dominate IC used in modern weapons systems and the vast majority of FPGA s are made off shore. At the present time the US does not have a comprehensive program to certify that the ICs that are going into U.S. weapons systems do not contain malicious circuits. This paper focuses on describing the structure and goals of the program, along with the challenges facing the effort. The program has wide participation with numerous US government departments. A brief description will be given of some of the novel approaches initially being deployed to address the challenges. The TRUST program is presently focused on three Tasks

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA482032

Entities

People

  • Dean R. Collins

Organizations

  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Application-Specific Integrated Circuits
  • Circuits
  • Detection
  • Electrical Circuits
  • Electron Microscopes
  • Engineering
  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  • Governments
  • Information Science
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Intellectual Property
  • Micro-Machines
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Scanning Electron Microscopes
  • X Rays

Fields of Study

  • Engineering
  • Physics

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  • Economics
  • Software Engineering