Watermarking system for IC design IP protection

Author

Ni, Min ; Gao, Zhiaqiang

Author_Institution

Instn. of Microelectron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

Volume

2

fYear

2004

Firstpage

1186

Abstract

A new concept of watermarking system for IC design IP protection is presented and its advantages against traditional constraint-based watermarking techniques are proposed. Differences and traits of various kinds of watermarking approaches and the design levels in which they are implemented are analyzed. The third part organization needed in a watermarking system is introduced and its main functions are listed. Possible attacks against the watermarking system are discussed. Using the proposed watermarking technique, both the robustness and the easy-detection of the watermark can be guaranteed.

Keywords

VLSI; encoding; industrial property; integrated circuit design; watermarking; IC design IP protection; VLSI design flow; constraint-based watermarking; counterfeiting; easy-detection; intellectual property protection; robustness; third part organization; unauthorized use; watermarking system; Constraint theory; Counterfeiting; Design engineering; Intellectual property; Microelectronics; Protection; Pulp manufacturing; Robustness; Very large scale integration; Watermarking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Circuits and Systems, 2004. ICCCAS 2004. 2004 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8647-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCAS.2004.1346387

Filename

1346387