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Nowadays, security is one of the foremost concerns as the confidence in a system is mostly dependent on its ability to protect itself against any attack. The area of Electromagnetic Fault Injection (EMFI) wherein attackers can use electromagnetic (EM) pulses to induce faults has started garnering increasing attention. It became crucial to understand EM attacks I would like to thank my committee members Dr. Leyla Nazhandali, Dr. Patrick Schaumont, and Dr. Lynn Abbott, for their strong support throughout my time at Virginia Tech. I am very grateful to Dr. Nazandali for her constant advice, mentoring and direction which helped me achieve my research goals. I would also like to give my special thanks to my colleagues in the Secure Embedded Systems lab namely Abhishek Bendre, Bilgiday Yuce, Chinmay Deshpande, and Yuan Yao for their prompt help in fixing issues with the setup and answering my questions which helped me to carry forward my research. I would also like to thank Archanaa Krishnan and Daniel Dinu for their supportive and cheerful companionship. I would like to thank the Virginia Tech libraries, Virginia Tech ECE department and the Virginia Tech Graduate School for their contribution in making the masters' thesis a smooth and fulfilling journey for me. I am much thankful to my friends at Virginia Tech for their constant push which motivated to do my best work. Last but not the least, I would like to thank my mom, my dad and my younger brother for their continued confidence in me and my efforts. I have gathered valuable knowledge and essential skills in perseverance and patience during this thesis for which I am eternally obliged to everyone involved. v

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