2025-2026 Academic Catalog 
    
    Dec 19, 2025  
2025-2026 Academic Catalog

EE 6550 - IC Hardware Security and Trust



Credit Hour(s): 3

Course Description: Students learn to analyze hardware security/trust and be able to implement various countermeasures to improve trust for hardware IC systems. Topics include IC design flow/lifecycle, trust issues at each stage of the IC lifecycle, attack methodologies that threaten HW IC systems, countermeasures to improve trust for HW IC systems, improving Trust for both ASIC and FPGA based systems. 

Corequisite(s): EE6550L

Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional. Must be enrolled in one of the following colleges: College of Egr & Computer Sci.

Course Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
Grade Mode: Standard
Term(s) Offered: Spring
An additional fee is associated with this course.