A Watermarking Technique for Hard IP Protection in Full-custom IC Design

摘要：

Intellectual property (IP) block reuse is essential for facilitating the design process of System-on-a-Chip (SOC). However, sharing IP blocks in todays competitive market poses significant high security risks. Recently, digital watermarking emerged as a candidate solution for copyright protection of IP blocks. In this paper, a new watermarking technique is proposed in full-custom IC design. We develop the technique for hard IP protection based on adjusting thetransistors to fit the watermark value. This technique is compatible with the existing IC design flow. The paper describes the outline of the technique, overviews the schemes used in its components, and reports experimental results.

作者: Fujun Bai Zhiqiang Gao Yi Xu Xueyu Cai

作者单位: Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University Beijing, 100084, China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2007年通信、电路与系统国际会议(2007 International Conference on Communications,Circuits and Systems Proceedings)

会议地点: 日本福冈

会议语种:英文

在线出版日期: 2007-07-11（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）