This paper proves several properties about Extended Frege proof systems and circuit equivalence.

The paper introduces Accordion, an end-to-end framework that significantly improves the efficiency of compiling fermionic Hamiltonians into quantum circuits for simulation on constrained quantum hardw…

The paper proposes constant depth threshold circuits for efficiently detecting epistasis by calculating the relative frequencies of all dataset combinations using specialized hardware architectures.

pcbGPT is a grounded system that automatically generates editable KiCad PCB schematics from natural language requirements, achieving high accuracy on complex embedded design tasks.

The paper introduces a novel threat model, approximate obfuscation, and proposes a framework to detect IP piracy in approximate circuits by comparing their statistical error profiles.

The paper proposes a novel three-layer metric framework to comprehensively evaluate quantum circuit integrity by combining structural, operational, and interaction-level analyses, demonstrating that n…

This paper establishes an unconditional barrier for AC0-natural proofs, showing that they cannot prove lower bounds greater than $2^{n^{7/(d-5)}}$ against depth-$d$ circuits.

This paper evaluates the security of Universal Circuits (UCs) for hardware obfuscation, demonstrating that they are effective against both oracle-guided and oracle-less attacks.

The paper systematically explores a vast design space of cryptographic Boolean networks by formalizing six structural constraints, finding that optimal designs result from sparse, mutually compatible…

The paper proposes a hardware-efficient compound IC protection mechanism that combines lightweight cryptography with logic locking and hardware obfuscation to secure integrated circuits against variou…

This paper surveys the security vulnerabilities of Variational Quantum Circuits (VQCs) to backdoor attacks, detailing various attack mechanisms and analyzing current detection and defense strategies.

The paper introduces SchGen, the first large language model capable of generating editable PCB schematics from natural language by using a novel semantically grounded code representation.

The paper proves that the reversible elementary second order cellular automaton rule 115 is periodic when started on finite initial configurations.

This paper details the design and evolution of a Hardware Reverse Engineering (HRE) course, providing key lessons for educators teaching rapidly changing technical domains.

This paper introduces a novel algorithm, CiSC, to efficiently and optimally synthesize circuit implementations of linear codes for hardware security, significantly outperforming existing state-of-the-…

This review analyzes the dual impact of integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into hardware design, detailing both their transformative potential in EDA and the critical security vulnerabilities th…

The paper provides the first machine-checked universal proof, using ring theory, that value-independence implies identical marginal distributions for arithmetic masking, thereby extending the verifica…

This paper presents an algorithm to generate snake-like polyominoes within a given rectangle and provides exact formulas for the maximal area of such polyominoes for certain dimensions.

This paper presents an algorithmic framework for exhaustively generating and tabulating knot and link diagrams on the thickened torus.

This paper characterizes the graph structure, including cycle and path lengths, of Chebyshev permutation polynomials over the ring $\mathbb{Z}_{2^{k_1}3^{k_2}}$, demonstrating strong regularities desp…