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...
Boolean Satisfiability is probably the most studied of combinatorial optimization/search problems. Significant effort has been devoted to trying to provide practical solutions to ...
Matthew W. Moskewicz, Conor F. Madigan, Ying Zhao,...
We propose a new BDD-based method for decomposition of multi-output incompletely specified logic functions into netlists of two-input logic gates. The algorithm uses the internal ...
Alan Mishchenko, Bernd Steinbach, Marek A. Perkows...
Currently, hardware intellectual property (IP) is delivered at vels of abstraction: hard, firm, and soft. In order to further enhance performance, efficiency, and flexibility of I...
Milenko Drinic UCLA Computer Science Dep. 4732 Boelter Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596 milenko@cs.ucla.edu Darko Kirovski Microsoft Research One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 da...
Watermarking of hardware and software designs is an effective mechanism for intellectual property protection (IPP). Two important criteria for watermarking schemes are credibility...
Power-aware systems are those that must make the best use of available power. They subsume traditional low-power systems in that they must not only minimize power when the budget ...
Jinfeng Liu, Pai H. Chou, Nader Bagherzadeh, Fadi ...