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Hardware Trojans in Analog, Mixed-Signal, and RF ICs

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In this chapter we summarize and present the existing, albeit limited work on known vulnerabilities and proposed remedies for AMS/RF ICs, emphasizing on hardware Trojans.

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    Angelos Antonopoulos, Christiana Kapatsori & Yiorgos Makris

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Antonopoulos, A., Kapatsori, C., Makris, Y. (2018). Hardware Trojans in Analog, Mixed-Signal, and RF ICs. In: Bhunia, S., Tehranipoor, M. (eds) The Hardware Trojan War. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68511-3_5

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