Rewiring for watermarking digital circuit netlists

A resynthesis method to protect firm cores or circuit netlist representations is presented. The design is protected by embedding watermark by rewiring circuit with one or more redundancy addition/removal steps. This is the first known attempt to explore rewiring for watermarking. Area, performance,...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on computer-aided design of integrated circuits and systems 2005-07, Vol.24 (7), p.1132-1137
Main Authors: Khan, M.M., Tragoudas, S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Benchmark testing
Circuit testing
Design reuse
Digital circuits
digital watermarks
Hardware design languages
Intellectual property
intellectual property protection (IPP)
Protection
rewiring
System-on-a-chip
Watermarking
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Summary:A resynthesis method to protect firm cores or circuit netlist representations is presented. The design is protected by embedding watermark by rewiring circuit with one or more redundancy addition/removal steps. This is the first known attempt to explore rewiring for watermarking. Area, performance, and testability requirements are preserved by the approach. We analyze several attack strategies and we experimentally demonstrate that the proof of authorship is guaranteed with very high probability for all ISCAS'85 benchmarks.
ISSN:0278-0070
1937-4151
DOI:10.1109/TCAD.2005.850855