This study reviews the current situation regarding design protection in the microelectronics
industry. Over the past 10 years, the designers of integrated circuits (IC) and intellectual …

Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is a kind of programmable chip that is widely used in
many areas, including automotive electronics, medical devices, military and consumer …

With the widespread growth of digital information and improved internet technologies, the
demand for improved information security techniques has significantly increased due to …

Evaluating and benchmarking software and hardware field programmable gate array
(FPGA)-based digital watermarking are considered challenging tasks because of multiple …

Intellectual Property (IP) core protection of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) kernels is an
important subject of research for Consumer Electronics (CE) systems. An IP core may be …

The challenges in the current design process for consumer electronics products include
greater complexity and stiff time-to-market pressure, which has led to the usage of reusable …

This paper presents a novel contact-less palmprint biometric hardware security approach for
securing DSP based coprocessors. The proposed approach is capable of generating secret …

Intellectual property (IP) right violations are an increasing problem for hardware designers.
Illegal copies of IP cores can cause multi-million dollar damages and are thus considered a …

Security of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) based Intellectual Property (IP) core is very
important for the overall security and reliability of Consumer Electronics (CE) systems. These …

This paper presents a novel approach to watermark FPGA designs on the netlist level. We
restrict the dynamically addressable part of the logic table, thus freeing space for insertion of …