Towards Hardware Trojan: Problem Analysis and Trojan Simulation

Similar to the software viruses, hardware Trojan can also do harm to electronic systems. Specially, in military and defense-related systems, hardware security problem is an important aspect in these applications. In this paper, we analyze characteristics of hardware Trojans and implement three hardware Trojans on our hardware Trojan simulation platform in order to demonstrate how vulnerable the hardware is and provide experimental environment for hardware Trojan checking tools.