Title :
Preventing IC Piracy Using Reconfigurable Logic Barriers
Author :
Baumgarten, Alex ; Tyagi, Akhilesh ; Zambreno, Joseph
Abstract :
Hardware metering to prevent IC piracy is a challenging and important problem. The authors propose a combinational locking scheme based on intelligent placement of the barriers throughout the design in which the objective is to maximize the effectiveness of the barriers and to minimize the overhead.
Keywords :
combinational circuits; computer crime; integrated logic circuits; metering; combinational locking scheme; hardware metering; integrated circuit piracy; intelligent placement; reconfigurable logic barriers; Asia; Companies; Contracts; Costs; Electronics industry; Fabrication; Foundries; Reconfigurable logic; Security; Supply chains; IC fabrication; IC piracy; IC security; design and test; hardware metering; reconfigurable-logic barriers; selection heuristics;
Journal_Title :
Design & Test of Computers, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MDT.2010.24
