Muhammad Yasin, Bodhisatwa Mazumdar, Jeyavijayan J V Rajendran, and Ozgur Sinanoglu
Logic locking is an Intellectual Property (IP) protection technique that thwarts IP piracy, hardware Trojans, reverse engineering, and IC overproduction. Researchers have taken multiple attempts in breaking logic locking techniques and recovering its secret key. A Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) based attack has been recently presented that breaks all the existing combinational logic locking techniques.