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What Are Trust Benchmarks?

Motivation
IP/IC trust area has gained significant attention in the past few years. Various circuits are used by research groups and labs. Trojan insertion in an ad hoc fashion, thereby creating confusion among researchers on what methodology may be effective in detecting hardware Trojans. There are fundamental differences in terms of the type of Trojans inserted into the circuits. It is vitally important to develop a set of trust benchmarks that can be employed by researchers in academia and industry to create synergy among researchers, be able to evaluate and compare different methodologies as well as enabling reproducibility.
A set of benchmarks have been developed and are available for download at trust-hub.org. Note that a generic library is also included where is available to academic use only.

Introducing Trust Benchmarks
The Trust-Hub team is planning on releasing about 200 trust benchmarks within the next few months. At this point, the team releases the first 20 benchmarks from RS232 circuit. Each trust benchmark has been tested by using a large number of functional and structural patterns. These benchmarks were designed at different abstraction levels, triggered in several ways, and have different effect mechanisms.

Please find more details about the Trojan taxonomy, naming convention, existing trust benchmarks, and the new ones that will be added to the list every week at http://www.trust-hub.org/taxonomy. You can also download each trust benchmark and see the readme file for each benchmark describing each Trojan in details.

Implementations and simulations were performed using GSCLib_3.0 library in 180nm and SAED_EDK90nm library in 90nm technology by Synopsys tools. It is the responsibility of users to obtain tools, technology libraries, and related licenses for their own evaluation.

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