CAREER: CAD Techniques and Tools for Intellectual Property Protection

职业：用于知识产权保护的 CAD 技术和工具

• 批准号: 9734166
• 负责人: Miodrag Potkonjak
• 金额: $ 27.54万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-07-01 至 2003-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9734166&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; CAD; Techniques; Tools; Intellectual

The use of proprietary designs (reusable cores) as part of VLSI systems on a chip depends on having reliable and efficient techniques for intellectual property (IP) protection. This research investigates techniques for such protection. It includes a watermarking (signature hiding) approach for protecting CAD tools, reusable cores, and embedded software. Also being explored is a fingerprinting scheme, and a covert channel-based technique for the efficient detection of misappropriated (stolen) IP. The watermarking approach is the addition of design and/or timing constraints in the design specification which encode the author's signature. Fingerprinting techniques are meant to deter people from illegally distributing IP by enabling the author of the IP to uniquely identify the original buyer of a resold copy. The concept of covert channels is the basis for techniques which convey to the author information without alerting an illegal owner of IP. The effectiveness of the proposed techniques and algorithms will be demonstrated on industrial strength designs. The educational plan includes the development and use of watermarking techniques and video games for teaching IP protection techniques and other material.

专有设计（可重复使用的核心）用作芯片上VLSI系统的一部分，取决于对知识产权（IP）保护的可靠技术。这项研究调查了这种保护的技术。它包括一种保护CAD工具，可重复使用的内核和嵌入式软件的水印（签名隐藏）方法。还探索了一种指纹方案，也是一种基于秘密的通道技术，可有效检测盗用（被盗）IP。水印方法是编码作者签名的设计规范中的设计和/或正时约束。指纹技术的目的是通过使IP的作者唯一地识别回售副本的原始买家来阻止人们非法分发IP。秘密渠道的概念是传达给作者信息的技术的基础，而无需提醒IP非法所有者。提出的技术和算法的有效性将在工业实力设计上展示。 教育计划包括开发和使用水印技术和视频游戏来教授IP保护技术和其他材料。