FPGA-Chain: Enabling Holistic Protection of FPGA Supply Chain With Blockchain Technology

Abstract

Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) bitstream reverse engineering and counterfeiting is a pertinent challenge in the modern hardware supply chain. To this end, this article proposes a blockchain-based technology to foster authenticity and integrity of the FPGA supply chain for trustworthy traceability. The proposed approach is transformative in being able to detect counterfeit FPGA chips and bitstreams using state-of-the-art blockchain technologies.—Kanad Basu, The University of Texas at Dallas