SFLL-HLS: Stripped-Functionality Logic Locking Meets High-Level Synthesis

Logic locking has emerged as a promising countermeasure against piracy and reverse engineering attacks on integrated circuits. The state-of-the-art logic locking techniques, more specifically stripped-functionality logic locking (SFLL), offer provable security guarantees against many attacks. However, these techniques focus on protecting individual modules or even parts of a module, failing to deliver system-wide security. This paper sheds light on integrating logic locking with high-level synthesis (HLS) in an attempt to deliver system-wide security. We demonstrate the integration of SFLL with LegUp HLS tool for an image processing application.