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Hardware Security Research for Integrated Circuits
Integrated circuits have been extensively deployed across critical sectors including industrial production, transportation, mobile communications, and financial payment systems, forming a foundational pillar of China's information infrastructure and national security framework. Typical IC designs now integrate dozens of IP cores, millions of lines of HDL code, and hundreds of millions of transistors. With development spanning design, fabrication, testing, and packaging phases, vulnerabilities may be introduced at any stage. Attackers can exploit these hardware flaws to compromise sensitive data, disrupt operations, or sabotage entire systems—rendering IC hardware security a critically heightened concern.