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IP Watermarking Using Incremental Technology Mapping at Logic Synthesis Level

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IP Watermarking Using Incremental Technology Mapping at Logic Synthesis Level

Cui, Aijiao, Chang, Chip Hong and Tahar, Sofiène (2008) IP Watermarking Using Incremental Technology Mapping at Logic Synthesis Level. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 27 (9). pp. 1565-1570. ISSN 0278-0070

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2008.927732

Abstract

This paper proposes an adaptive watermarking technique by modulating some closed cones in an originally optimized logic network (master design) for technology mapping. The headroom of each disjoint closed cone is evaluated based on its slack and slack sustainability. The notion of slack sustainability in conjunction with an embedding threshold enables closed cones in the critical path to be qualified as watermark hosts if their slacks can be better preserved upon remapping. The watermark is embedded by remapping only qualified disjoint closed cones randomly selected and templates constrained by the signature. This parametric formulation provides a means to capitalize on the headroom of a design to increase the signature length or strengthen the watermark resilience. With the master design, the watermarked design can be authenticated as in nonoblivious media watermarking. Experimental results show that the design can be efficiently marked by our method with low overhead.

Divisions:Concordia University > Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science > Electrical and Computer Engineering
Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Authors:Cui, Aijiao and Chang, Chip Hong and Tahar, Sofiène
Journal or Publication:IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Date:2008
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):10.1109/TCAD.2008.927732
Keywords:Digital watermarking incremental technology mapping intellectual property (IP) protection (IPP) logic synthesis
ID Code:977370
Deposited By: Danielle Dennie
Deposited On:14 Jun 2013 14:31
Last Modified:18 Jan 2018 17:44

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