Introduction to Hardware Security

4.0 credits

The focus will be to provide background and insight into some of the most active security related research areas in the field of VLSI design methodologies, side-channel attacks and countermeasures, covert communication attacks and countermeasures, physical unclonnable functions, hardware Trojans, security versus power/performance/noise/area/cost tradeoffs for corresponding countermeasures, etc Prerequisites: Basic Undergraduate Math and Physics