Watermarking techniques for intellectual property protection
DAC '98 Proceedings of the 35th annual Design Automation Conference
Robust IP watermarking methodologies for physical design
DAC '98 Proceedings of the 35th annual Design Automation Conference
Signature hiding techniques for FPGA intellectual property protection
Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Analysis of watermarking techniques for graph coloring problem
Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Intellectual property protection by watermarking combinational logic synthesis solutions
Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Proceedings of the 38th annual Design Automation Conference
Intellectual Property Metering
IHW '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Information Hiding
Techniques for the creation of digital watermarks in sequential circuit designs
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Fingerprinting techniques for field-programmable gate array intellectual property protection
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Rewiring for watermarking digital circuit netlists
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
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In this paper we present a hardware metering method to meter or monitor legitimate use of integrated circuits embedded in a computer system. The motivation for this work comes from fabless semiconductor design business/operation model which has become very effective and popular in last few years. A fabless design house produces a design and gives it to a foundry to manufacture the final chip. Once design masks are with the foundry, the original designer has no effective control over the number of copies of the chip that are produced by foundry. We present a finite state machine based automated hardware metering technique to control the use of chip regardless of the number of copies being manufactured.