Hardware/software IP protection

  • Authors:
  • Marcello Dalpasso;Alessandro Bogliolo;Luca Benini

  • Affiliations:
  • DEI-University of Padova, Via Gradenigo 6A, 35131 Padova, Italy;DI-University of Ferrara, Via Saragat 1, 44100 Ferrara, Italy;DEIS-University of Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 37th Annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Design methodologies based on reuse of intellectual property (IP) components critically depend on techniques to protect IP ownership. IP protection is particularly challenging for hardware/software systems, where an IP core runs embedded software: both the software and the core are valuable IP that must be protected.We propose a new technique for protecting the IP of both processor cores and application software in hardware/software systems. Our approach is based on public-key cryptography and it has been implemented as a package in the JavaCAD distributed design and simulation environment [1].