Graph Neural Networks for Integrated Circuit Design, Reliability, and Security: Survey and Tool.

Johann Knechtel New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5093-2939

Ziad El Sayed Zeng Wang Hana Selmani Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Lilas Alrahis Graph Neural Networks for Integrated Circuit Design, Reliability, and Security: Survey and Tool. 102:1-102:44 2026 March 58 ACM Comput. Surv. 4 https://doi.org/10.1145/3769081 db/journals/csur/csur58.html#SayedWSKSA26 streams/journals/csur

Fangzhou Wang Qijing Wang Lilas Alrahis Bangqi Fu Shui Jiang Xiaopeng Zhang 0009 Ozgur Sinanoglu Tsung-Yi Ho Evangeline F. Y. Young Johann Knechtel TroLLoc: Security Closure against Hardware Trojans by Logic Locking and Layout Hardening. 2026 December 4 10 J. Hardw. Syst. Secur. 1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s41635-026-00177-1 db/journals/jhss/jhss10.html#WangWAFJZSHYK26 streams/journals/jhss

Prithwish Basu Roy Akashdeep Saha Lilas Alrahis Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Ramesh Karri POSTER: Hector - An Agentic LLM Framework for Logic Locking. 1892-1894 2026 AsiaCCS https://doi.org/10.1145/3779208.3804884 conf/asiaccs/2026 db/conf/asiaccs/asiaccs2026.html#RoySAKSK26 Rupesh Raj Karn Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Benchmarking Continual Learning on Netlists with Circuit-Targeted Graph Neural Networks. ASP-DAC 2026 15-21 conf/aspdac/2026 https://doi.org/10.1109/ASP-DAC66049.2026.11420312 db/conf/aspdac/aspdac2026.html#KarnKS26 streams/conf/aspdac Rupesh Raj Karn Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Black-Box Robustness Probing of Graph Neural Networks for VLSI Circuit Netlists. DATE 2026 1-7 conf/date/2026 https://doi.org/10.23919/DATE69613.2026.11539434 db/conf/date/date2026.html#KarnKS26 streams/conf/date Rupesh Raj Karn Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Interpretable Graph Neural Networks for Fault Detection in Circuit Netlists. DATE 2026 1-3 conf/date/2026 https://doi.org/10.23919/DATE69613.2026.11539280 db/conf/date/date2026.html#KarnKS26a streams/conf/date Buddhi Perera Zeng Wang Weihua Xiao Mohammed Nabeel 0001 Ozgur Sinanoglu Johann Knechtel Ramesh Karri Focus Session: LLM4PQC - Accurate and Efficient Synthesis of PQC Cores by Feedback-Driven LLMs. DATE 2026 1-7 conf/date/2026 https://doi.org/10.23919/DATE69613.2026.11539440 db/conf/date/date2026.html#PereraWXNSKK26 streams/conf/date Weihua Xiao Jason Blocklove Matthew DeLorenzo Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Kanad Basu Jeyavijayan Rajendran Siddharth Garg Ramesh Karri Special Day - GUIDE: GenAI Units In Digital Design Education. DATE 2026 1-7 conf/date/2026 https://doi.org/10.23919/DATE69613.2026.11539269 db/conf/date/date2026.html#XiaoBDKSBRGK26 streams/conf/date Weimin Fu Zeng Wang Minghao Shao Ramesh Karri Muhammad Shafique 0001 Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Xiaolong Guo Synthesis-in-the-Loop Evaluation of LLMs for RTL Generation: Quality, Reliability, and Failure Modes. 630-637 2026 ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI https://doi.org/10.1145/3787109.3815245 conf/glvlsi/2026 db/conf/glvlsi/glvlsi2026.html#FuWSKSKSG26 Rupesh Raj Karn Johann Knechtel Siddharth Garg Ramesh Karri Ozgur Sinanoglu LLM-Driven Python-to-Rust Translation for Efficient and Safe Code for Neural Networks: llm4py2rs. 268-277 2026 ICISSP (2) https://doi.org/10.5220/0014383000004061 conf/icissp/2026-2 db/conf/icissp/icissp2026-2.html#KarnKGKS26 Johann Knechtel Susann Rothe Robert Fischbach Matthias Thiele Tilo Meister Andreas Krinke Invited: From Evolutionary Algorithms to Analog Design, Electromigration, 3D Integration, and Beyond: On Jens Lienig's Contributions to Advance Physical Design. 226-235 2026 ISPD https://doi.org/10.1145/3764386.3779613 conf/ispd/2026 db/conf/ispd/ispd2026.html#KnechtelRFTMK26

Saideep Sreekumar Zeng Wang Akashdeep Saha Weihua Xiao Minghao Shao Muhammad Shafique 0001 Ozgur Sinanoglu Ramesh Karri Johann Knechtel TrojanGYM: A Detector-in-the-Loop LLM for Adaptive RTL Hardware Trojan Insertion. 2026 January abs/2601.17178 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.17178 db/journals/corr/corr2601.html#abs-2601-17178 streams/journals/corr

Buddhi Perera Zeng Wang Weihua Xiao Mohammed Nabeel 0001 Ozgur Sinanoglu Johann Knechtel Ramesh Karri Focus Session: LLM4PQC - An Agentic Framework for Accurate and Efficient Synthesis of PQC Cores. 2026 February abs/2602.09919 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.09919 db/journals/corr/corr2602.html#abs-2602-09919 streams/journals/corr

Weimin Fu Zeng Wang Minghao Shao Ramesh Karri Muhammad Shafique 0001 Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Xiaolong Guo Synthesis-in-the-Loop Evaluation of LLMs for RTL Generation: Quality, Reliability, and Failure Modes. 2026 March abs/2603.11287 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.11287 db/journals/corr/corr2603.html#abs-2603-11287 streams/journals/corr

Weihua Xiao Jason Blocklove Matthew DeLorenzo Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Kanad Basu Jeyavijayan Rajendran Siddharth Garg Ramesh Karri GUIDE: GenAI Units In Digital Design Education. 2026 March abs/2603.17296 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.17296 db/journals/corr/corr2603.html#abs-2603-17296 streams/journals/corr

Prithwish Basu Roy Zeng Wang Anatolii Chuvashlov Weihua Xiao Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Ramesh Karri VeriCWEty: Embedding enabled Line-Level CWE Detection in Verilog. 2026 April abs/2604.15375 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.15375 db/journals/corr/corr2604.html#abs-2604-15375 streams/journals/corr

Zeng Wang Minghao Shao Weimin Fu Prithwish Basu Roy Xiaolong Guo Ramesh Karri Muhammad Shafique 0001 Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu HarmChip: Evaluating Hardware Security Centric LLM Safety via Jailbreak Benchmarking. 2026 April abs/2604.17093 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.17093 db/journals/corr/corr2604.html#abs-2604-17093 streams/journals/corr

Weimin Fu Zeng Wang Minghao Shao Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Ramesh Karri Muhammad Shafique 0001 Xiaolong Guo From Natural Language to Silicon: The Representation Bottleneck in LLM Hardware Design. 2026 April abs/2604.17097 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.17097 db/journals/corr/corr2604.html#abs-2604-17097 streams/journals/corr

Minghao Shao Zeng Wang Weimin Fu Xiaolong Guo Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Ramesh Karri Muhammad Shafique 0001 Configuration Over Selection: Hyperparameter Sensitivity Exceeds Model Differences in Open-Source LLMs for RTL Generation. 2026 April abs/2604.17102 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.17102 db/journals/corr/corr2604.html#abs-2604-17102 streams/journals/corr

Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Ramesh Karri LLMs for Secure Hardware Design and Related Problems: Opportunities and Challenges. 2026 May abs/2605.10807 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.10807 db/journals/corr/corr2605.html#abs-2605-10807 streams/journals/corr

Prithwish Basu Roy Madhav Nair Rajat Sadhukhan Manaar Alam Johann Knechtel Hammond Pearce Debdeep Mukhopadhyay Ozgur Sinanoglu Ramesh Karri Netlist whisperer: extensive analysis of circuit leakage using LLMs. 22 2025 November 15 J. Cryptogr. Eng. 4 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13389-025-00386-4 db/journals/jce/jce15.html#RoyNSAKPMSK25 streams/journals/jce

Johann Knechtel Mohammad Eslami Peng Zou Min Wei Xingyu Tong 0001 Binggang Qiu Zhijie Cai Guohao Chen 0001 Benchao Zhu Jiawei Li Jun Yu 0010 Jianli Chen Chun-Wei Chiu Min-Feng Hsieh Chia-Hsiu Ou Ting-Chi Wang Bangqi Fu Qijing Wang Yang Sun Qin Luo Anthony W. H. Lau Fangzhou Wang Evangeline F. Y. Young Shunyang Bi Guangxin Guo Haonan Wu Zhengguang Tang Hailong You Cong Li Ramesh Karri Ozgur Sinanoglu Samuel Pagliarini Trojan Insertion versus Layout Defenses for Modern ICs: Red-versus-Blue Teaming in a Competitive Community Effort. 37-77 2025 2025 IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst. 1 https://doi.org/10.46586/tches.v2025.i1.37-77 db/journals/tches/tches2025.html#KnechtelEZWTQCCZLYCCHOW25 streams/journals/tches

Jitendra Bhandari Jayanth Gopinath Mohammed Ashraf Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Ramesh Karri DEFending Integrated Circuit Layouts. 46-59 2025 20 IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2024.3492810 db/journals/tifs/tifs20.html#BhandariGAKSK25 streams/journals/tifs

Lakshmi Likhitha Mankali Jitendra Bhandari Manaar Alam Ramesh Karri Michail Maniatakos Ozgur Sinanoglu Johann Knechtel RTL-Breaker: Assessing the Security of LLMs Against Backdoor Attacks on HDL Code Generation. 1-7 2025 DATE https://doi.org/10.23919/DATE64628.2025.10993260 conf/date/2025 db/conf/date/date2025.html#MankaliBAKMSK25 Rupesh Raj Karn Johann Knechtel Ramesh Karri Ozgur Sinanoglu LLM-Driven Code Generation for Neural Networks on FPGAs: Bridging Python and HLS. 590-593 2025 ICCD https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCD65941.2025.00090 conf/iccd/2025 db/conf/iccd/iccd2025.html#KarnKKS25 streams/conf/iccd Rupesh Raj Karn Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Logic Locking for Random Forests: Securing HDL Design and FPGA Accelerator Implementation. 463-473 2025 ICISSP (2) https://doi.org/10.5220/0013108000003899 conf/icissp/2025-2 db/conf/icissp/icissp2025-2.html#KarnKS25 Rupesh Raj Karn Prithwish Basu Roy Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Unlearning in Decision Tree Classifiers and Microcontroller Implementations. 617-624 2025 CAI https://doi.org/10.1109/CAI64502.2025.00114 conf/ieeecai/2025 db/conf/ieeecai/ieeecai2025.html#KarnRKS25 streams/conf/ieeecai Rupesh Raj Karn Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Backdoor Attack Detection in Decision Tree Classifiers Using SHAP Explainability. 839-846 2025 CAI https://doi.org/10.1109/CAI64502.2025.00149 conf/ieeecai/2025 db/conf/ieeecai/ieeecai2025.html#KarnKS25 streams/conf/ieeecai Jitendra Bhandari Mohammed Nabeel 0001 Likhitha Mankali Ozgur Sinanoglu Ramesh Karri Johann Knechtel LiCSPA: Lightweight Countermeasure against Static Power Side-Channel Attacks. 1-5 2025 ISCAS https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS56072.2025.11044116 conf/iscas/2025 db/conf/iscas/iscas2025.html#Bhandari0MSKK25 Rupesh Raj Karn Prithwish Basu Roy Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Educational Framework for Power Side-Channel Attacks on Neural Networks in Embedded Systems. 1-5 2025 ISCAS https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS56072.2025.11043456 conf/iscas/2025 db/conf/iscas/iscas2025.html#KarnRKS25 Zeng Wang Minghao Shao Rupesh Raj Karn Likhitha Mankali Jitendra Bhandari Ramesh Karri Ozgur Sinanoglu Muhammad Shafique 0001 Johann Knechtel SALAD: Systematic Assessment of Machine Unlearning on LLM-Aided Hardware Design. 1-10 2025 MLCAD https://doi.org/10.1109/MLCAD65511.2025.11189152 conf/mlcad/2025 db/conf/mlcad/mlcad2025.html#WangSKMBKSSK25 streams/conf/mlcad Kangwei Xu Denis Schwachhofer Jason Blocklove Ilia Polian Peter Domanski Dirk Pflüger Siddharth Garg Ramesh Karri Ozgur Sinanoglu Johann Knechtel Zhuorui Zhao Ulf Schlichtmann Bing Li 0005 Large Language Models (LLMs) for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) : Special Session Paper. 1-6 2025 SOCC https://doi.org/10.1109/SOCC66126.2025.11235352 conf/socc/2025 db/conf/socc/socc2025.html#XuSBPDPGKSKZSL25 streams/conf/socc Lakshmi Likhitha Mankali Mohammed Nabeel 0001 Faiq Raees Michail Maniatakos Ozgur Sinanoglu Johann Knechtel GlitchFHE: Attacking Fully Homomorphic Encryption Using Fault Injection. 8481-8500 2025 USENIX Security Symposium https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity25/presentation/mankali conf/uss/2025 db/conf/uss/uss2025.html#Mankali0RMSK25 Akashdeep Saha Prithwish Basu Roy Johann Knechtel Ramesh Karri Ozgur Sinanoglu Lilas Alrahis GLLaMoR: Graph-based Logic Locking by Large Language Models for Enhanced Robustness. 1-5 2025 VTS https://doi.org/10.1109/VTS65138.2025.11022851 conf/vts/2025 db/conf/vts/vts2025.html#SahaRKKSA25 Johann Knechtel Urbi Chatterjee Domenic Forte Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering - 14th International Conference, SPACE 2024, Kottayam, India, December 14-17, 2024, Proceedings SPACE Springer 2025 Lecture Notes in Computer Science 15351 978-3-031-80407-6 978-3-031-80408-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-80408-3 db/conf/space/space2024.html

Zeng Wang Minghao Shao Mohammed Nabeel 0001 Prithwish Basu Roy Likhitha Mankali Jitendra Bhandari Ramesh Karri Ozgur Sinanoglu Muhammed Shafique 0001 Johann Knechtel VeriLeaky: Navigating IP Protection vs Utility in Fine-Tuning for LLM-Driven Verilog Coding. 2025 March abs/2503.13116 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.13116 db/journals/corr/corr2503.html#abs-2503-13116 streams/journals/corr

Zeng Wang Minghao Shao Jitendra Bhandari Likhitha Mankali Ramesh Karri Ozgur Sinanoglu Muhammad Shafique 0001 Johann Knechtel VeriContaminated: Assessing LLM-Driven Verilog Coding for Data Contamination. 2025 March abs/2503.13572 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.13572 db/journals/corr/corr2503.html#abs-2503-13572 streams/journals/corr

Prithwish Basu Roy Akashdeep Saha Manaar Alam Johann Knechtel Michail Maniatakos Ozgur Sinanoglu Ramesh Karri Veritas: Deterministic Verilog Code Synthesis from LLM-Generated Conjunctive Normal Form. 2025 June abs/2506.00005 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.00005 db/journals/corr/corr2506.html#abs-2506-00005 streams/journals/corr

Zeng Wang Minghao Shao Rupesh Raj Karn Likhitha Mankali Jitendra Bhandari Ramesh Karri Ozgur Sinanoglu Muhammad Shafique 0001 Johann Knechtel SALAD: Systematic Assessment of Machine Unlearing on LLM-Aided Hardware Design. 2025 June abs/2506.02089 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.02089 db/journals/corr/corr2506.html#abs-2506-02089 streams/journals/corr

Raghu Vamshi Hemadri Jitendra Bhandari Andre Nakkab Johann Knechtel Badri P. Gopalan Ramesh Narayanaswamy Ramesh Karri Siddharth Garg VeriLoC: Line-of-Code Level Prediction of Hardware Design Quality from Verilog Code. 2025 June abs/2506.07239 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.07239 db/journals/corr/corr2506.html#abs-2506-07239 streams/journals/corr

Joshua Mashburn Johann Knechtel Florian Klemme Hussam Amrouch Ozgur Sinanoglu Paul V. Gratz Targeted Wearout Attacks in Microprocessor Cores. 2025 August abs/2508.16868 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.16868 db/journals/corr/corr2508.html#abs-2508-16868 streams/journals/corr

Kangwei Xu Denis Schwachhofer Jason Blocklove Ilia Polian Peter Domanski Dirk Pflüger Siddharth Garg Ramesh Karri Ozgur Sinanoglu Johann Knechtel Zhuorui Zhao Ulf Schlichtmann Bing Li 0005 Large Language Models (LLMs) for Electronic Design Automation (EDA). 2025 August abs/2508.20030 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.20030 db/journals/corr/corr2508.html#abs-2508-20030 streams/journals/corr

Akashdeep Saha Zeng Wang Prithwish Basu Roy Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Ramesh Karri LockForge: Automating Paper-to-Code for Logic Locking with Multi-Agent Reasoning LLMs. 2025 November abs/2511.18531 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.18531 db/journals/corr/corr2511.html#abs-2511-18531 streams/journals/corr

Zeng Wang Minghao Shao Akashdeep Saha Ramesh Karri Johann Knechtel Muhammad Shafique 0001 Ozgur Sinanoglu NetDeTox: Adversarial and Efficient Evasion of Hardware-Security GNNs via RL-LLM Orchestration. 2025 December abs/2512.00119 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.00119 db/journals/corr/corr2512.html#abs-2512-00119 streams/journals/corr

Weihua Xiao Zeng Wang Minghao Shao Raghu Vamshi Hemadri Ozgur Sinanoglu Muhammad Shafique 0001 Johann Knechtel Siddharth Garg Ramesh Karri TrojanLoC: LLM-based Framework for RTL Trojan Localization. 2025 December abs/2512.00591 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.00591 db/journals/corr/corr2512.html#abs-2512-00591 streams/journals/corr

Rupesh Raj Karn Lakshmi Likhitha Mankali Zeng Wang Saideep Sreekumar Prithwish Basu Roy Ozgur Sinanoglu Lilas Alrahis Johann Knechtel Logic Encryption: This Time for Real. 2025 December abs/2512.00833 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.00833 db/journals/corr/corr2512.html#abs-2512-00833 streams/journals/corr

Gino A. Chacon Charles Williams Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Paul V. Gratz Vassos Soteriou Coherence Attacks and Countermeasures in Interposer-based Chiplet Systems. 23 2024 June 21 ACM Trans. Archit. Code Optim. 2 https://doi.org/10.1145/3633461 db/journals/taco/taco21.html#ChaconWKSGS24 streams/journals/taco

Jitendra Bhandari Likhitha Mankali Mohammed Nabeel 0001 Ozgur Sinanoglu Ramesh Karri Johann Knechtel Beware Your Standard Cells! On Their Role in Static Power Side-Channel Attacks. 4439-4452 2024 December 43 IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 12 https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2024.3394736 db/journals/tcad/tcad43.html#BhandariMNSKK24 streams/journals/tcad

Rupesh Raj Karn Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Progressive Learning With Recurrent Neural Network for Sequence Classification. 1591-1595 2024 March 71 IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. II Express Briefs 3 https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2023.3346046 db/journals/tcasII/tcasII71.html#KarnKS24

Jitendra Bhandari Jayanth Gopinath Mohammed Ashraf Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Ramesh Karri Safeguarding the Silicon: Strategies for Integrated Circuit Layout Protection. 466-470 2024 APCCAS https://doi.org/10.1109/APCCAS62602.2024.10808337 conf/apccas/2024 db/conf/apccas/apccas2024.html#BhandariGAKSK24 Jitendra Bhandari Animesh Basak Chowdhury Ozgur Sinanoglu Siddharth Garg Ramesh Karri Johann Knechtel ASCENT: Amplifying Power Side-Channel Resilience via Learning & Monte-Carlo Tree Search. 193:1-193:8 2024 ICCAD https://doi.org/10.1145/3676536.3676821 conf/iccad/2024 db/conf/iccad/iccad2024.html#BhandariCSGKK24 Rupesh Raj Karn Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Selective Forgetting in Task-Progressive Learning Through Machine Unlearning. 77-84 2024 ICMLC https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMLC63072.2024.10935063 conf/icmlc/2024 db/conf/icmlc/icmlc2024.html#KarnKS24 Rupesh Raj Karn Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Obfuscation of FSMs for Secure Outsourcing of Neural Network Inference onto FPGAs. 1-5 2024 ISCAS https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS58744.2024.10558279 conf/iscas/2024 db/conf/iscas/iscas2024.html#KarnKS24 Rupesh Raj Karn Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Code-Based Cryptography for Confidential Inference on FPGAs: An End-to-End Methodology. 1-8 2024 ISQED https://doi.org/10.1109/ISQED60706.2024.10528692 conf/isqed/2024 db/conf/isqed/isqed2024.html#KarnKS24 Zeng Wang Lilas Alrahis Likhitha Mankali Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu LLMs and the Future of Chip Design: Unveiling Security Risks and Building Trust. 385-390 2024 ISVLSI https://doi.org/10.1109/ISVLSI61997.2024.00076 conf/isvlsi/2024 db/conf/isvlsi/isvlsi2024.html#WangAMKS24 streams/conf/isvlsi Lilas Alrahis Mohammed Thari Nabeel Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu The Impact of Logic Synthesis and Technology Mapping on Logic Locking Security. 1-6 2024 VLSI-SoC https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSI-SoC62099.2024.10767809 conf/vlsi/2024 db/conf/vlsi/vlsisoc2024.html#AlrahisNKS24 Mohammed Nabeel 0001 Homer Gamil Johann Knechtel Michail Maniatakos MCS-NTT: Multi-Chip System Design for NTT Acceleration. 1-4 2024 VLSI-SoC https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSI-SoC62099.2024.10767808 conf/vlsi/2024 db/conf/vlsi/vlsisoc2024.html#NabeelGKM24

Jitendra Bhandari Mohammed Thari Nabeel Likhitha Mankali Ozgur Sinanoglu Ramesh Karri Johann Knechtel Lightweight Masking Against Static Power Side-Channel Attacks. 2024 abs/2402.03196 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2402.03196 db/journals/corr/corr2402.html#abs-2402-03196

Fangzhou Wang Qijing Wang Lilas Alrahis Bangqi Fu Shui Jiang Xiaopeng Zhang 0009 Ozgur Sinanoglu Tsung-Yi Ho Evangeline F. Y. Young Johann Knechtel TroLLoc: Logic Locking and Layout Hardening for IC Security Closure against Hardware Trojans. 2024 abs/2405.05590 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.05590 db/journals/corr/corr2405.html#abs-2405-05590

Zeng Wang Lilas Alrahis Likhitha Mankali Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu LLMs and the Future of Chip Design: Unveiling Security Risks and Building Trust. 2024 abs/2405.07061 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.07061 db/journals/corr/corr2405.html#abs-2405-07061

Jitendra Bhandari Johann Knechtel Ramesh Narayanaswamy Siddharth Garg Ramesh Karri LLM-Aided Testbench Generation and Bug Detection for Finite-State Machines. 2024 abs/2406.17132 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.17132 db/journals/corr/corr2406.html#abs-2406-17132 streams/journals/corr

Jitendra Bhandari Animesh Basak Chowdhury Mohammed Nabeel 0001 Ozgur Sinanoglu Siddharth Garg Ramesh Karri Johann Knechtel ASCENT: Amplifying Power Side-Channel Resilience via Learning & Monte-Carlo Tree Search. 2024 abs/2406.19549 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.19549 db/journals/corr/corr2406.html#abs-2406-19549 streams/journals/corr

Lakshmi Likhitha Mankali Jitendra Bhandari Manaar Alam Ramesh Karri Michail Maniatakos Ozgur Sinanoglu Johann Knechtel RTL-Breaker: Assessing the Security of LLMs against Backdoor Attacks on HDL Code Generation. 2024 abs/2411.17569 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.17569 db/journals/corr/corr2411.html#abs-2411-17569 streams/journals/corr

Prithwish Basu Roy Johann Knechtel Akashdeep Saha Saideep Sreekumar Likhitha Mankali Mohammed Thari Nabeel Debdeep Mukhopadhyay Ramesh Karri Ozgur Sinanoglu NiLoPher: Breaking a Modern SAT-Hardened Logic-Locking Scheme via Power Analysis Attack. 309 2024 2024 IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/309 db/journals/iacr/iacr2024.html#RoyKSSMNMKS24

Johann Knechtel Mohammad Eslami Peng Zou Min Wei Xingyu Tong 0001 Binggang Qiu Zhijie Cai Guohao Chen 0001 Benchao Zhu Jiawei Li Jun Yu 0010 Jianli Chen Chun-Wei Chiu Min-Feng Hsieh Chia-Hsiu Ou Ting-Chi Wang Bangqi Fu Qijing Wang Yang Sun Qin Luo Anthony W. H. Lau Fangzhou Wang Evangeline F. Y. Young Shunyang Bi Guangxin Guo Haonan Wu Zhengguang Tang Hailong You Cong Li Ramesh Karri Ozgur Sinanoglu Samuel Pagliarini Trojan Insertion versus Layout Defenses for Modern ICs: Red-versus-Blue Teaming in a Competitive Community Effort. 1440 2024 2024 IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1440 db/journals/iacr/iacr2024.html#KnechtelEZWTQCCZLYCCHOW24 streams/journals/iacr

Likhitha Mankali Satwik Patnaik Nimisha Limaye Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu VIGILANT: Vulnerability Detection Tool Against Fault-Injection Attacks for Locking Techniques. 3571-3584 2023 November 42 IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 11 https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2023.3259300 db/journals/tcad/tcad42.html#MankaliPLKS23

Likhitha Mankali Lilas Alrahis Satwik Patnaik Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Titan: Security Analysis of Large-Scale Hardware Obfuscation Using Graph Neural Networks. 304-318 2023 18 IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2022.3218429 db/journals/tifs/tifs18.html#MankaliAPKS23

Lilas Alrahis Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Graph Neural Networks: A Powerful and Versatile Tool for Advancing Design, Reliability, and Security of ICs. 83-90 2023 ASP-DAC https://doi.org/10.1145/3566097.3568345 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10044847 conf/aspdac/2023 db/conf/aspdac/aspdac2023.html#AlrahisKS23 Animesh Basak Chowdhury Lilas Alrahis Luca Collini Johann Knechtel Ramesh Karri Siddharth Garg Ozgur Sinanoglu Benjamin Tan 0001 ALMOST: Adversarial Learning to Mitigate Oracle-less ML Attacks via Synthesis Tuning. 1-6 2023 DAC https://doi.org/10.1109/DAC56929.2023.10247921 conf/dac/2023 db/conf/dac/dac2023.html#ChowdhuryACKKGST23 Hazem Lashen Lilas Alrahis Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu TrojanSAINT: Gate-Level Netlist Sampling-Based Inductive Learning for Hardware Trojan Detection. 1-5 2023 ISCAS https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS46773.2023.10181403 conf/iscas/2023 db/conf/iscas/iscas2023.html#LashenAKS23 Fangzhou Wang Qijing Wang Bangqi Fu Shui Jiang Xiaopeng Zhang 0009 Lilas Alrahis Ozgur Sinanoglu Johann Knechtel Tsung-Yi Ho Evangeline F. Y. Young Security Closure of IC Layouts Against Hardware Trojans. 229-237 2023 ISPD https://doi.org/10.1145/3569052.3571878 conf/ispd/2023 db/conf/ispd/ispd2023.html#WangWFJ0ASKHY23 Saideep Sreekumar Mohammed Ashraf Mohammed Thari Nabeel Ozgur Sinanoglu Johann Knechtel X-Volt: Joint Tuning of Driver Strengths and Supply Voltages Against Power Side-Channel Attacks. 238-246 2023 ISPD https://doi.org/10.1145/3569052.3571882 conf/ispd/2023 db/conf/ispd/ispd2023.html#SreekumarANSK23 Mohammad Eslami Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Ramesh Karri Samuel Pagliarini Benchmarking Advanced Security Closure of Physical Layouts: ISPD 2023 Contest. 256-264 2023 ISPD https://doi.org/10.1145/3569052.3578924 conf/ispd/2023 db/conf/ispd/ispd2023.html#EslamiKSKP23 Lilas Alrahis Likhitha Mankali Satwik Patnaik Abhrajit Sengupta Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu UN-SPLIT: Attacking Split Manufacturing Using Link Prediction in Graph Neural Networks. 197-213 2023 SPACE https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51583-5_12 conf/space/2023 db/conf/space/space2023.html#AlrahisMPSKS23

Hazem Lashen Lilas Alrahis Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu TrojanSAINT: Gate-Level Netlist Sampling-Based Inductive Learning for Hardware Trojan Detection. 2023 abs/2301.11804 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2301.11804 db/journals/corr/corr2301.html#abs-2301-11804

Animesh Basak Chowdhury Lilas Alrahis Luca Collini Johann Knechtel Ramesh Karri Siddharth Garg Ozgur Sinanoglu Benjamin Tan 0001 ALMOST: Adversarial Learning to Mitigate Oracle-less ML Attacks via Synthesis Tuning. 2023 abs/2303.03372 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2303.03372 db/journals/corr/corr2303.html#abs-2303-03372

Jitendra Bhandari Jayanth Gopinath Mohammed Ashraf Johann Knechtel Ramesh Karri DEFending Integrated Circuit Layouts. 205 2023 2023 IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/205 db/journals/iacr/iacr2023.html#BhandariGAKK23

Jitendra Bhandari Likhitha Mankali Mohammed Nabeel 0001 Ozgur Sinanoglu Ramesh Karri Johann Knechtel Beware Your Standard Cells! On Their Role in Static Power Side-Channel Attacks. 920 2023 2023 IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/920 db/journals/iacr/iacr2023.html#BhandariMNSKK23

Gino A. Chacon Charles Williams Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Paul V. Gratz Hardware Trojan Threats to Cache Coherence in Modern 2.5D Chiplet Systems. 133-136 2022 July - December 21 IEEE Comput. Archit. Lett. 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/LCA.2022.3216820 db/journals/cal/cal21.html#ChaconWKSG22

Abhrajit Sengupta Mohammed Nabeel 0001 Mohammed Ashraf Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu A New Paradigm in Split Manufacturing: Lock the FEOL, Unlock at the BEOL. 22 2022 6 Cryptogr. 2 https://doi.org/10.3390/cryptography6020022 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q114844956 db/journals/cryptography/cryptography6.html#SenguptaNAKS22

Nikhil Rangarajan Johann Knechtel Dinesh Rajasekharan Ozgur Sinanoglu SuperVAULT: Superparamagnetic Volatile Auxiliary Tamper-Proof Storage. 103-106 2022 14 IEEE Embed. Syst. Lett. 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/LES.2021.3127682 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q114085816 db/journals/esl/esl14.html#RangarajanKRS22

Johann Knechtel Tarek Ashraf Natascha Fernengel Satwik Patnaik Mohammed Nabeel 0001 Mohammed Ashraf Ozgur Sinanoglu Hussam Amrouch Design-time exploration of voltage switching against power analysis attacks in 14 nm FinFET technology. 27-34 2022 85 Integr. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vlsi.2022.02.006 db/journals/integration/integration85.html#KnechtelAFPNASA22

Satwik Patnaik Mohammed Ashraf Haocheng Li Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Concerted Wire Lifting: Enabling Secure and Cost-Effective Split Manufacturing. 266-280 2022 41 IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2021.3056379 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q114985215 db/journals/tcad/tcad41.html#PatnaikALKS22

Lilas Alrahis Abhrajit Sengupta Johann Knechtel Satwik Patnaik Hani Saleh Baker Mohammad Mahmoud Al-Qutayri Ozgur Sinanoglu GNN-RE: Graph Neural Networks for Reverse Engineering of Gate-Level Netlists. 2435-2448 2022 41 IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 8 https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2021.3110807 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q114985191 db/journals/tcad/tcad41.html#AlrahisSKPSMAS22

Lilas Alrahis Johann Knechtel Florian Klemme Hussam Amrouch Ozgur Sinanoglu GNN4REL: Graph Neural Networks for Predicting Circuit Reliability Degradation. 3826-3837 2022 41 IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 11 https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2022.3197521 db/journals/tcad/tcad41.html#AlrahisKKAS22

Nikhil Rangarajan Johann Knechtel Nimisha Limaye Ozgur Sinanoglu Hussam Amrouch A Novel Attack Mode on Advanced Technology Nodes Exploiting Transistor Self-Heating. 4134-4144 2022 41 IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 11 https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2022.3197496 db/journals/tcad/tcad41.html#RangarajanKLSA22

Nikhil Rangarajan Satwik Patnaik Johann Knechtel Ramesh Karri Ozgur Sinanoglu Shaloo Rakheja Opening the Doors to Dynamic Camouflaging: Harnessing the Power of Polymorphic Devices. 137-156 2022 10 IEEE Trans. Emerg. Top. Comput. 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/TETC.2020.2991134 db/journals/tetc/tetc10.html#RangarajanPKKSR22

Shubham Rai Satwik Patnaik Ansh Rupani Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Akash Kumar 0001 Security Promises and Vulnerabilities in Emerging Reconfigurable Nanotechnology-Based Circuits. 763-778 2022 10 IEEE Trans. Emerg. Top. Comput. 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/TETC.2020.3039375 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q114255832 db/journals/tetc/tetc10.html#RaiPRKSK22

Johann Knechtel Jayanth Gopinath Mohammed Ashraf Jitendra Bhandari Ozgur Sinanoglu Ramesh Karri Benchmarking Security Closure of Physical Layouts: ISPD 2022 Contest. 221-228 2022 ISPD https://doi.org/10.1145/3505170.3511046 conf/ispd/2022 db/conf/ispd/ispd2022.html#KnechtelGABSK22 Nikhil Rangarajan Satwik Patnaik Mohammed Nabeel 0001 Mohammed Ashraf Shubham Rai Gopal Raut Heba Abunahla Baker Mohammad Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma Akash Kumar 0001 Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu SCRAMBLE: A Secure and Configurable, Memristor-Based Neuromorphic Hardware Leveraging 3D Architecture. 308-313 2022 ISVLSI https://doi.org/10.1109/ISVLSI54635.2022.00067 conf/isvlsi/2022 db/conf/isvlsi/isvlsi2022.html#RangarajanPNARR22

Lilas Alrahis Johann Knechtel Florian Klemme Hussam Amrouch Ozgur Sinanoglu GNN4REL: Graph Neural Networks for Predicting Circuit Reliability Degradation. 2022 abs/2208.02868 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2208.02868 db/journals/corr/corr2208.html#abs-2208-02868

Gino A. Chacon Charles Williams Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Paul V. Gratz Hardware Trojan Threats to Cache Coherence in Modern 2.5D Chiplet Systems. 2022 abs/2210.00058 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2210.00058 db/journals/corr/corr2210.html#abs-2210-00058

Fangzhou Wang Qijing Wang Bangqi Fu Shui Jiang Xiaopeng Zhang 0009 Lilas Alrahis Ozgur Sinanoglu Johann Knechtel Tsung-Yi Ho Evangeline F. Y. Young Security Closure of IC Layouts Against Hardware Trojans. 2022 abs/2211.07997 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2211.07997 db/journals/corr/corr2211.html#abs-2211-07997

Saideep Sreekumar Mohammed Ashraf Mohammed Nabeel 0001 Ozgur Sinanoglu Johann Knechtel X-Volt: Joint Tuning of Driver Strengths and Supply Voltages Against Power Side-Channel Attacks. 2022 abs/2211.08046 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2211.08046 db/journals/corr/corr2211.html#abs-2211-08046

Lilas Alrahis Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Graph Neural Networks: A Powerful and Versatile Tool for Advancing Design, Reliability, and Security of ICs. 2022 abs/2211.16495 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2211.16495 db/journals/corr/corr2211.html#abs-2211-16495

Shaza Elsharief Lilas Alrahis Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu IsoLock: Thwarting Link-Prediction Attacks on Routing Obfuscation by Graph Isomorphism. 1752 2022 2022 IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1752 db/journals/iacr/iacr2022.html#ElshariefAKS22

Haocheng Li Satwik Patnaik Mohammed Ashraf Haoyu Yang Johann Knechtel Bei Yu 0001 Ozgur Sinanoglu Evangeline F. Y. Young Deep Learning Analysis for Split-Manufactured Layouts With Routing Perturbation. 1995-2008 2021 40 IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 10 https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2020.3037297 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q114985227 db/journals/tcad/tcad40.html#LiPAYKYSY21

Satwik Patnaik Mohammed Ashraf Ozgur Sinanoglu Johann Knechtel A Modern Approach to IP Protection and Trojan Prevention: Split Manufacturing for 3D ICs and Obfuscation of Vertical Interconnects. 1815-1834 2021 9 IEEE Trans. Emerg. Top. Comput. 4 https://doi.org/10.1109/TETC.2019.2933572 db/journals/tetc/tetc9.html#PatnaikASK21

Lilas Alrahis Satwik Patnaik Johann Knechtel Hani Saleh Baker Mohammad Mahmoud Al-Qutayri Ozgur Sinanoglu UNSAIL: Thwarting Oracle-Less Machine Learning Attacks on Logic Locking. 2508-2523 2021 16 IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2021.3057576 db/journals/tifs/tifs16.html#AlrahisPKSMAS21

Johann Knechtel Jayanth Gopinath Jitendra Bhandari Mohammed Ashraf Hussam Amrouch Shekhar Borkar Sung Kyu Lim Ozgur Sinanoglu Ramesh Karri Security Closure of Physical Layouts ICCAD Special Session Paper. 1-9 2021 ICCAD https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAD51958.2021.9643543 conf/iccad/2021 db/conf/iccad/iccad2021.html#KnechtelGBAABLS21 Jens Lienig Susann Rothe Matthias Thiele Nikhil Rangarajan Mohammed Ashraf Mohammed Nabeel 0001 Hussam Amrouch Ozgur Sinanoglu Johann Knechtel Toward Security Closure in the Face of Reliability Effects ICCAD Special Session Paper. 1-9 2021 ICCAD https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAD51958.2021.9643447 conf/iccad/2021 db/conf/iccad/iccad2021.html#LienigRTRANASK21 Johann Knechtel Hardware Security for and beyond CMOS Technology. 115-126 2021 ISPD https://doi.org/10.1145/3439706.3446902 conf/ispd/2021 db/conf/ispd/ispd2021.html#Knechtel21

Tapojyoti Mandal Gino Chacon Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Paul Gratz Vassos Soteriou Interposer-Based Root of Trust. 2021 abs/2105.02917 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02917 db/journals/corr/corr2105.html#abs-2105-02917

Nikhil Rangarajan Satwik Patnaik Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Shaloo Rakheja SMART: A Secure Magnetoelectric AntifeRromagnet-Based Tamper-Proof Non-Volatile Memory. 76130-76142 2020 8 IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2988889 db/journals/access/access8.html#RangarajanPKSR20

Johann Knechtel Satwik Patnaik Mohammed Nabeel 0001 Mohammed Ashraf Yogesh Singh Chauhan Jörg Henkel Ozgur Sinanoglu Hussam Amrouch Power Side-Channel Attacks in Negative Capacitance Transistor. 74-84 2020 40 IEEE Micro 6 https://doi.org/10.1109/MM.2020.3005883 db/journals/micro/micro40.html#KnechtelPNACHSA20

Mohammed Nabeel 0001 Mohammed Ashraf Satwik Patnaik Vassos Soteriou Ozgur Sinanoglu Johann Knechtel 2.5D Root of Trust: Secure System-Level Integration of Untrusted Chiplets. 1611-1625 2020 69 IEEE Trans. Computers 11 https://doi.org/10.1109/TC.2020.3020777 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q114985398 db/journals/tc/tc69.html#NabeelAPSSK20

Satwik Patnaik Nikhil Rangarajan Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Shaloo Rakheja Spin-Orbit Torque Devices for Hardware Security: From Deterministic to Probabilistic Regime. 1591-1606 2020 39 IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 8 https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2019.2917856 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q114985288 db/journals/tcad/tcad39.html#PatnaikRKSR20

Satwik Patnaik Mohammed Ashraf Ozgur Sinanoglu Johann Knechtel Obfuscating the Interconnects: Low-Cost and Resilient Full-Chip Layout Camouflaging. 4466-4481 2020 39 IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 12 https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2020.2981034 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q114985273 db/journals/tcad/tcad39.html#PatnaikASK20

Johann Knechtel Elif Bilge Kavun Francesco Regazzoni 0001 Annelie Heuser Anupam Chattopadhyay Debdeep Mukhopadhyay Soumyajit Dey Yunsi Fei Yaacov Belenky Itamar Levi Tim Güneysu Patrick Schaumont Ilia Polian Towards Secure Composition of Integrated Circuits and Electronic Systems: On the Role of EDA. 508-513 2020 DATE https://doi.org/10.23919/DATE48585.2020.9116483 conf/date/2020 db/conf/date/date2020.html#KnechtelK0HCMDF20 Johann Knechtel Hardware Security For and Beyond CMOS Technology: An Overview on Fundamentals, Applications, and Challenges. 75-86 2020 ISPD https://doi.org/10.1145/3372780.3378175 conf/ispd/2020 db/conf/ispd/ispd2020.html#Knechtel20

Johann Knechtel Hardware Security for and beyond CMOS Technology: An Overview on Fundamentals, Applications, and Challenges. 2020 abs/2001.08780 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08780 db/journals/corr/corr2001.html#abs-2001-08780

Satwik Patnaik Mohammed Ashraf Ozgur Sinanoglu Johann Knechtel Obfuscating the Interconnects: Low-Cost and Resilient Full-Chip Layout Camouflaging. 2020 abs/2003.10830 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10830 db/journals/corr/corr2003.html#abs-2003-10830

Johann Knechtel Satwik Patnaik Mohammed Nabeel 0001 Mohammed Ashraf Yogesh Singh Chauhan Jörg Henkel Ozgur Sinanoglu Hussam Amrouch Power Side-Channel Attacks in Negative Capacitance Transistor (NCFET). 2020 abs/2007.03987 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03987 db/journals/corr/corr2007.html#abs-2007-03987

Haocheng Li Satwik Patnaik Abhrajit Sengupta Haoyu Yang Johann Knechtel Bei Yu 0001 Evangeline F. Y. Young Ozgur Sinanoglu Attacking Split Manufacturing from a Deep Learning Perspective. 2020 abs/2007.03989 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03989 db/journals/corr/corr2007.html#abs-2007-03989

Mohammed Nabeel 0001 Mohammed Ashraf Satwik Patnaik Vassos Soteriou Ozgur Sinanoglu Johann Knechtel 2.5D Root of Trust: Secure System-Level Integration of Untrusted Chiplets. 2020 abs/2009.02412 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02412 db/journals/corr/corr2009.html#abs-2009-02412

Lilas Alrahis Satwik Patnaik Johann Knechtel Hani Saleh Baker Mohammad Mahmoud Al-Qutayri Ozgur Sinanoglu UNSAIL: Thwarting Oracle-Less Machine Learning Attacks on Logic Locking. 2020 abs/2012.14938 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14938 db/journals/corr/corr2012.html#abs-2012-14938

Nikhil Rangarajan Satwik Patnaik Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Shaloo Rakheja Spin-Based Reconfigurable Logic for Power- and Area-Efficient Applications. 22-30 2019 36 IEEE Des. Test 3 https://doi.org/10.1109/MDAT.2019.2895021 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q128545244 db/journals/dt/dt36.html#RangarajanPKSR19

Johann Knechtel Satwik Patnaik Ozgur Sinanoglu Protect Your Chip Design Intellectual Property: An Overview. 211-216 2019 COINS https://doi.org/10.1145/3312614.3312657 conf/coins/2019 db/conf/coins/coins2019.html#KnechtelPS19 Haocheng Li Satwik Patnaik Abhrajit Sengupta Haoyu Yang Johann Knechtel Bei Yu 0001 Evangeline F. Y. Young Ozgur Sinanoglu Attacking Split Manufacturing from a Deep Learning Perspective. 135 2019 DAC https://doi.org/10.1145/3316781.3317780 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8807001 conf/dac/2019 db/conf/dac/dac2019.html#LiPSYKYYS19 Abhrajit Sengupta Mohammed Nabeel 0001 Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu A New Paradigm in Split Manufacturing: Lock the FEOL, Unlock at the BEOL. 414-419 2019 DATE https://doi.org/10.23919/DATE.2019.8715281 conf/date/2019 db/conf/date/date2019.html#SenguptaNKS19 Johann Knechtel Satwik Patnaik Ozgur Sinanoglu 3D Integration: Another Dimension Toward Hardware Security. 147-150 2019 IOLTS https://doi.org/10.1109/IOLTS.2019.8854395 conf/iolts/2019 db/conf/iolts/iolts2019.html#KnechtelPS19

Johann Knechtel Satwik Patnaik Ozgur Sinanoglu Protect Your Chip Design Intellectual Property: An Overview. 2019 abs/1902.05333 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05333 db/journals/corr/corr1902.html#abs-1902-05333

Nikhil Rangarajan Satwik Patnaik Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Shaloo Rakheja SMART: Secure Magnetoelectric AntifeRromagnet-Based Tamper-Proof Non-Volatile Memory. 2019 abs/1902.07792 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07792 db/journals/corr/corr1902.html#abs-1902-07792

Abhrajit Sengupta Mohammed Thari Nabeel Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu A New Paradigm in Split Manufacturing: Lock the FEOL, Unlock at the BEOL. 2019 abs/1903.02913 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1903.02913 db/journals/corr/corr1903.html#abs-1903-02913

Satwik Patnaik Nikhil Rangarajan Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Shaloo Rakheja Spin-Orbit Torque Devices for Hardware Security: From Deterministic to Probabilistic Regime. 2019 abs/1904.00421 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00421 db/journals/corr/corr1904.html#abs-1904-00421

Mohammed Nabeel 0001 Mohammed Ashraf Satwik Patnaik Vassos Soteriou Ozgur Sinanoglu Johann Knechtel An Interposer-Based Root of Trust: Seize the Opportunity for Secure System-Level Integration of Untrusted Chiplets. 2019 abs/1906.02044 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02044 db/journals/corr/corr1906.html#abs-1906-02044

Johann Knechtel Satwik Patnaik Ozgur Sinanoglu 3D Integration: Another Dimension Toward Hardware Security. 2019 abs/1906.02499 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02499 db/journals/corr/corr1906.html#abs-1906-02499

Johann Knechtel Jacek Gosciniak Alabi Bojesomo Satwik Patnaik Ozgur Sinanoglu Mahmoud Rasras Toward Physically Unclonable Functions from Plasmonics-Enhanced Silicon Disc Resonators. 2019 abs/1907.13229 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1907.13229 db/journals/corr/corr1907.html#abs-1907-13229

Satwik Patnaik Mohammed Ashraf Ozgur Sinanoglu Johann Knechtel A Modern Approach to IP Protection and Trojan Prevention: Split Manufacturing for 3D ICs and Obfuscation of Vertical Interconnects. 2019 abs/1908.03925 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03925 db/journals/corr/corr1908.html#abs-1908-03925

Johann Knechtel Jens Lienig Ibrahim Abe M. Elfadel Multi-Objective 3D Floorplanning with Integrated Voltage Assignment. 22:1-22:27 2018 23 ACM Trans. Design Autom. Electr. Syst. 2 https://doi.org/10.1145/3149817 db/journals/todaes/todaes23.html#KnechtelLE18

Satwik Patnaik Johann Knechtel Mohammed Ashraf Ozgur Sinanoglu Concerted wire lifting: Enabling secure and cost-effective split manufacturing. 251-258 2018 ASP-DAC https://doi.org/10.1109/ASPDAC.2018.8297314 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3201660 conf/aspdac/2018 db/conf/aspdac/aspdac2018.html#PatnaikKAS18 Sergii Osmolovskyi Johann Knechtel Igor L. Markov Jens Lienig Optimal die placement for interposer-based 3D ICs. 513-520 2018 ASP-DAC https://doi.org/10.1109/ASPDAC.2018.8297375 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3201729 conf/aspdac/2018 db/conf/aspdac/aspdac2018.html#OsmolovskyiKML18 Satwik Patnaik Mohammed Ashraf Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Raise your game for split manufacturing: restoring the true functionality through BEOL. 140:1-140:6 2018 DAC https://doi.org/10.1145/3195970.3196100 https://doi.org/10.1109/DAC.2018.8465841 conf/dac/2018 db/conf/dac/dac2018.html#PatnaikAKS18 Satwik Patnaik Nikhil Rangarajan Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Shaloo Rakheja Advancing hardware security using polymorphic and stochastic spin-hall effect devices. 97-102 2018 DATE https://doi.org/10.23919/DATE.2018.8341986 conf/date/2018 db/conf/date/date2018.html#PatnaikRKSR18 Satwik Patnaik Mohammed Ashraf Ozgur Sinanoglu Johann Knechtel Best of both worlds: integration of split manufacturing and camouflaging into a security-driven CAD flow for 3D ICs. 8 2018 ICCAD https://doi.org/10.1145/3240765.3240784 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8587715/ conf/iccad/2018 db/conf/iccad/iccad2018.html#PatnaikASK18

Satwik Patnaik Johann Knechtel Mohammed Ashraf Ozgur Sinanoglu Concerted Wire Lifting: Enabling Secure and Cost-Effective Split Manufacturing. 2018 abs/1806.00787 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1806.00787 db/journals/corr/corr1806.html#abs-1806-00787

Satwik Patnaik Nikhil Rangarajan Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Shaloo Rakheja Advancing Hardware Security Using Polymorphic and Stochastic Spin-Hall Effect Devices. 2018 abs/1806.00790 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1806.00790 db/journals/corr/corr1806.html#abs-1806-00790

Satwik Patnaik Mohammed Ashraf Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Raise Your Game for Split Manufacturing: Restoring the True Functionality Through BEOL. 2018 abs/1806.09135 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09135 db/journals/corr/corr1806.html#abs-1806-09135

Nikhil Rangarajan Satwik Patnaik Johann Knechtel Ramesh Karri Ozgur Sinanoglu Shaloo Rakheja Opening the Doors to Dynamic Camouflaging: Harnessing the Power of Polymorphic Devices. 2018 abs/1811.06012 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06012 db/journals/corr/corr1811.html#abs-1811-06012

Satwik Patnaik Mohammed Ashraf Ozgur Sinanoglu Johann Knechtel Best of Both Worlds: Integration of Split Manufacturing and Camouflaging into a Security-Driven CAD Flow for 3D ICs. 2018 abs/1811.06822 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06822 db/journals/corr/corr1811.html#abs-1811-06822

Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Ibrahim Abe M. Elfadel Jens Lienig Cliff C. N. Sze Large-Scale 3D Chips: Challenges and Solutions for Design Automation, Testing, and Trustworthy Integration. 45-62 2017 10 IPSJ Trans. Syst. LSI Des. Methodol. https://doi.org/10.2197/ipsjtsldm.10.45 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q56658012 db/journals/ipsj/ipsj10.html#KnechtelSELS17

Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu On Mitigation of Side-Channel Attacks in 3D ICs: Decorrelating Thermal Patterns from Power and Activity. 12:1-12:6 2017 DAC https://doi.org/10.1145/3061639.3062293 conf/dac/2017 db/conf/dac/dac2017.html#KnechtelS17 Satwik Patnaik Mohammed Ashraf Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Obfuscating the interconnects: Low-cost and resilient full-chip layout camouflaging. 41-48 2017 ICCAD https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAD.2017.8203758 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3199706 conf/iccad/2017 db/conf/iccad/iccad2017.html#PatnaikAKS17 Abhrajit Sengupta Satwik Patnaik Johann Knechtel Mohammed Ashraf Siddharth Garg Ozgur Sinanoglu Rethinking split manufacturing: An information-theoretic approach with secure layout techniques. 329-326 2017 ICCAD https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAD.2017.8203796 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3199744 conf/iccad/2017 db/conf/iccad/iccad2017.html#SenguptaPKAGS17

Abhrajit Sengupta Satwik Patnaik Johann Knechtel Mohammed Ashraf Siddharth Garg Ozgur Sinanoglu Rethinking Split Manufacturing: An Information-Theoretic Approach with Secure Layout Techniques. 2017 abs/1710.02026 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02026 db/journals/corr/corr1710.html#abs-1710-02026

Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu On Mitigation of Side-Channel Attacks in 3D ICs: Decorrelating Thermal Patterns from Power and Activity. 2017 abs/1710.02678 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02678 db/journals/corr/corr1710.html#abs-1710-02678

Satwik Patnaik Mohammed Ashraf Johann Knechtel Ozgur Sinanoglu Obfuscating the Interconnects: Low-Cost and Resilient Full-Chip Layout Camouflaging. 2017 abs/1711.05284 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1711.05284 db/journals/corr/corr1711.html#abs-1711-05284

Johann Knechtel Jens Lienig Physical Design Automation for 3D Chip Stacks: Challenges and Solutions. 3-10 2016 ISPD https://doi.org/10.1145/2872334.2872335 conf/ispd/2016 db/conf/ispd/ispd2016.html#KnechtelL16

Johann Knechtel Evangeline F. Y. Young Jens Lienig Planning Massive Interconnects in 3-D Chips. 1808-1821 2015 34 IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 11 https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2015.2432141 db/journals/tcad/tcad34.html#KnechtelYL15

Johann Knechtel Evangeline F. Y. Young Jens Lienig Structural planning of 3D-IC interconnects by block alignment. 53-60 2014 ASP-DAC https://doi.org/10.1109/ASPDAC.2014.6742866 conf/aspdac/2014 db/conf/aspdac/aspdac2014.html#KnechtelYL14 Puskar Budhathoki Johann Knechtel Andreas Henschel Ibrahim Abe M. Elfadel Integration of thermal management and floorplanning based on three-dimensional layout representations. 962-965 2013 ICECS https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2013.6815572 conf/icecsys/2013 db/conf/icecsys/icecsys2013.html#BudhathokiKHE13 Robert Fischbach Johann Knechtel Jens Lienig Utilizing 2D and 3D rectilinear blocks for efficient IP reuse and floorplanning of 3D-integrated systems. 11-16 2013 ISPD https://doi.org/10.1145/2451916.2451921 conf/ispd/2013 db/conf/ispd/ispd2013.html#FischbachKL13

Johann Knechtel Igor L. Markov Jens Lienig Assembling 2-D Blocks Into 3-D Chips. 228-241 2012 31 IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2011.2174640 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q59445731 db/journals/tcad/tcad31.html#KnechtelML12

Johann Knechtel Igor L. Markov Jens Lienig Matthias Thiele Multiobjective optimization of deadspace, a critical resource for 3D-IC integration. 705-712 2012 ICCAD https://doi.org/10.1145/2429384.2429538 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6386751/ conf/iccad/2012 db/conf/iccad/iccad2012.html#KnechtelMLT12 Robert Fischbach Jens Lienig Johann Knechtel Investigating modern layout representations for improved 3d design automation. 337-342 2011 ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI https://doi.org/10.1145/1973009.1973076 conf/glvlsi/2011 db/conf/glvlsi/glvlsi2011.html#FischbachLK11 Johann Knechtel Igor L. Markov Jens Lienig Assembling 2D blocks into 3D chips. 81-88 2011 ISPD https://doi.org/10.1145/1960397.1960417 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q59445730 conf/ispd/2011 db/conf/ispd/ispd2011.html#KnechtelML11 Heba Abunahla Mahmoud Al-Qutayri Manaar Alam Lilas Alrahis Hussam Amrouch Mohammed Ashraf Tarek Ashraf Kanad Basu Yaacov Belenky Jitendra Bhandari Shunyang Bi Jason Blocklove Alabi Bojesomo Shekhar Borkar Puskar Budhathoki Zhijie Cai Gino ChaconGino A. Chacon Urbi Chatterjee Anupam Chattopadhyay Yogesh Singh Chauhan Guohao Chen 0001 Jianli Chen Chun-Wei Chiu Animesh Basak Chowdhury Anatolii Chuvashlov Luca Collini Matthew DeLorenzo Soumyajit Dey Peter Domanski Ibrahim M. ElfadelIbrahim Abe M. Elfadel Shaza Elsharief Mohammad Eslami Yunsi Fei Natascha Fernengel Robert Fischbach Domenic Forte Bangqi Fu Weimin Fu Homer Gamil Siddharth Garg Badri P. Gopalan Jayanth Gopinath Jacek Gosciniak Paul GratzPaul V. Gratz Tim Güneysu Guangxin Guo Xiaolong Guo Raghu Vamshi Hemadri Jörg Henkel Andreas Henschel Annelie Heuser Tsung-Yi Ho Min-Feng Hsieh Shui Jiang Rupesh Raj Karn Ramesh Karri Elif Bilge Kavun Florian Klemme Andreas Krinke Akash Kumar 0001 Hazem Lashen Anthony W. H. Lau Itamar Levi Bing Li 0005 Cong Li Haocheng Li Jiawei Li Jens Lienig Sung Kyu Lim Nimisha Limaye Qin Luo Tapojyoti Mandal Michail Maniatakos Likhitha MankaliLakshmi Likhitha Mankali Igor L. Markov Joshua Mashburn Tilo Meister Baker Mohammad Mohammed Nabeel Thari MoopanMohammed Thari NabeelMohammed Nabeel 0001 Debdeep Mukhopadhyay Madhav Nair Andre Nakkab Ramesh Narayanaswamy Sergii Osmolovskyi Chia-Hsiu Ou Samuel Nascimento PagliariniSamuel Pagliarini Satwik Patnaik Hammond A. PearceHammond Pearce Buddhi Perera Dirk Pflüger Ilia Polian Binggang Qiu Faiq Raees Shubham Rai Dinesh Rajasekharan Jeyavijayan Rajendran Shaloo Rakheja Nikhil Rangarajan Mahmoud Rasras Gopal Raut Francesco Regazzoni 0001 Susann Rothe Prithwish Basu Roy Ansh Rupani Rajat Sadhukhan Akashdeep Saha Hani Saleh Ziad El Sayed Patrick Schaumont Ulf Schlichtmann Denis Schwachhofer Hana Selmani Abhrajit Sengupta Muhammad Shafique 0001Muhammed Shafique 0001 Minghao Shao Ozgur Sinanoglu Vassos Soteriou Saideep Sreekumar Yang Sun Cliff C. N. Sze Benjamin Tan 0001 Zhengguang Tang Matthias Thiele Xingyu Tong 0001 Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma Fangzhou Wang Qijing Wang Ting-Chi Wang Zeng Wang Min Wei Charles Williams Haonan Wu Weihua Xiao Kangwei Xu Haoyu Yang Hailong You Evangeline F. Y. Young Bei Yu 0001 Jun Yu 0010 Xiaopeng Zhang 0009 Zhuorui Zhao Benchao Zhu Peng Zou