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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals

An Efficient and Reliable Watermarking System for IP Protection

Tingyuan NIE, Masahiko TOYONAGA

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IP (Intellectual Property) reuse plays an important role in modern IC design so that IP Protection (IPP) technique is get concerned. In this paper, we introduce a new efficient watermarking system for IPP on post-layout design stage. The signature (which indicates the designer) is encrypted with a secret key by DES (Data Encryption Standard) to produce a bit string, which is then embedded into the layout design as constraints by using a specific incremental router. Once the design is watermarked successfully, the signature can be extracted accurately by the system. The system also has a strong resistance to the attack on watermarking due to the DES functionality. This watermarking technique uniquely identifies the circuit origin, yet is difficult to be detected or fabricated without our tool. We evaluated the watermarking system on IBM-PLACE 2.0 benchmark suites. The results show the system robustness and strength: the system success probability achieves 100% in suitable time with no extra area and wire length cost on design performances.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E90-A No.9 pp.1932-1939
Publication Date
2007/09/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1093/ietfec/e90-a.9.1932
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
VLSI Design Technology and CAD

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