CHIP SCAN, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: Hardware design today bears similarities to software design. Often vendors buy and integra
CHIP SCAN, INC. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $149,984
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Solicitation
- 2014.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- NY
- Period
- 2014-05-30 → 2014-11-30
Description
Hardware design today bears similarities to software design. Often vendors buy and integrate code acquired from third-party organizations into their designs, especially in embedded/system-on-chip designs. Currently, there is no way to determine if third-party designs have built-in backdoors that can compromise security after deployment. We propose to investigate techniques to detect backdoors in third-party IP components using principles from the area of Boolean Functional Analysis. A remarkable and novel aspect of our approach is that backdoors can be caught before the design is fabricated.