Title :
Hierarchical watermarking in IC design
Author :
Charbon, Edoardo
Author_Institution :
Cadence Design Syst. Inc., San Jose, CA, USA
Abstract :
A formalization of the watermarking problem is presented and basic algorithms for its generation and detection at several abstraction levels are proposed. The concepts of robustness against forgery and theft tracing are analyzed in light of the proposed algorithms
Keywords :
industrial property; integrated circuit design; redundancy; topology; IC design; IP protection; abstraction levels; forgery; hierarchical watermarking; robustness; theft tracing; Algorithm design and analysis; Counterfeiting; Electronics industry; Forgery; Industrial electronics; Phase detection; Protection; Robustness; Topology; Watermarking;
Conference_Titel :
Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 1998. Proceedings of the IEEE 1998
Conference_Location :
Santa Clara, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4292-5
DOI :
10.1109/CICC.1998.694985
