Digital system designs are the product of valuable effort and knowhow. Their embodiments, from software and HDL program down to device-level netlist and mask data, represent caref...
Andrew B. Kahng, John Lach, William H. Mangione-Sm...
Highlighted with the newly released intellectual property (IP) protection white paper by VSI Alliance, the protection of virtual components (VCs) has received a large amount of at...
Increasingly popular reuse-based design paradigms create a pressing need for authorship enforcement techniques that protect the intellectual property rights of designers. We devel...
Andrew B. Kahng, Stefanus Mantik, Igor L. Markov, ...
FPGAs, because of their re-programmability, are becoming very popular for creating and exchanging VLSI intellectual properties (IPs) in the reuse-based design paradigm. Existing w...
Adarsh K. Jain, Lin Yuan, Pushkin R. Pari, Gang Qu
In this paper, we introduce a new watermarking system for IP protection on post-layout design phase. Firstly the copyright is encrypted by DES (Data Encryption Standard) and then ...