US Patent Issued to University of Florida Research Foundation on Sept. 29 for "Scalable detection of hardware Trojans using ATPG-based activation of rare events" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,857, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation INC. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Scalable detection of hardware Trojans using ATPG-based activation of rare events" was invented by Prabhat Kumar Mishra (Gainesville, Fla.) and Aruna Jayasena Ranhotige (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure presents systems and methods for test pattern generation to detect a hardware Trojan. One such method comprises simulating an integrated circuit design; during the simulation, identifying rare nodes within the integrated circuit design that are activated less than a predefined rareness t...