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Pre-silicon fuzzing

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**Pre-silicon fuzzing** is the application of fuzz-testing techniques to hardware designs before fabrication, with the goal of exposing design bugs or security weaknesses while the processor or hardware block is still available as a model, simulator, or register-transfer-level design. In processor-security research, recent work extends pre-silicon fuzzing beyond functional-correctness testing toward **security-oriented fuzzing**, including detection of side-channel leakage against formal hardware-software leakage contracts.[^geier-abstract]

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Pre-silicon fuzzing

Pre-silicon fuzzing is the application of fuzz-testing techniques to hardware designs before fabrication, with the goal of exposing design bugs or security weaknesses while the processor or hardware block is still available as a model, simulator, or register-transfer-level design. In processor-security research, recent work extends pre-silicon fuzzing beyond functional-correctness testing toward security-oriented fuzzing, including detection of side-channel leakage against formal hardware-software leakage contracts.[1]

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The paper is about pre-silicon fuzzing of open-source processors.