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Abstract
The time-to-market pressure and continuous growing complexity of hardware
designs have promoted the globalization of the Integrated Circuit (IC) supply
chain. However, such globalization also poses various security threats in each
phase of the IC supply chain. Although the advancements of Machine Learning
(ML) have pushed the frontier of hardware security, most conventional ML-based
methods can only achieve the desired performance by manually finding a robust
feature representation for circuits that are non-Euclidean data. As a result,
modeling these circuits using graph learning to improve design flows has
attracted research attention in the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) field.
However, due to the lack of supporting tools, only a few existing works apply
graph learning to resolve hardware security issues. To attract more attention,
we propose HW2VEC, an open-source graph learning tool that lowers the threshold
for newcomers to research hardware security applications with graphs. HW2VEC
provides an automated pipeline for extracting a graph representation from a
hardware design in various abstraction levels (register transfer level or
gate-level netlist). Besides, HW2VEC users can automatically transform the
non-Euclidean hardware designs into Euclidean graph embeddings for solving
their problems. In this paper, we demonstrate that HW2VEC can achieve
state-of-the-art performance on two hardware security-related tasks: Hardware
Trojan Detection and Intellectual Property Piracy Detection. We provide the
time profiling results for the graph extraction and the learning pipelines in
HW2VEC.