Hot topic session 12A: Split manufacturing — IARPA´s TIC program

State of the art integrated circuit manufacturing is mainly centered in Asia. The US government is concerned about procuring integrated circuits from untrusted sources. In addition to the worries about counterfeiting, there is also a concern about the loss of design information which would reveal the functionality of critical circuits. IARPA´s TIC program is one approach to protecting critical program information and still obtain the performance and power advantages of state of the art circuits.