Functional Locking Modules for Design Protection of Intellectual Property Cores

Brice Colombier (1) , Lilian Bossuet (1)

1 LHC - Laboratoire Hubert Curien

Electronics systems design is increasingly uses Intellectual Property (IP) cores. The means, however, that can render the IP core unusable if it has been obtained illegally have not yet been identified. We describe lightweight locking schemes lacking in the state of the art.

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Embedded Systems; Computer Science [cs]; Cryptography and Security [cs.CR]

Brice Colombier, Lilian Bossuet. Functional Locking Modules for Design Protection of Intellectual Property Cores. IEEE 23rd Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, May 2015, vancouver, Canada. pp.233, ⟨10.1109/FCCM.2015.17⟩. ⟨ujm-01164036⟩