A Survey of hardware protection of design data for integrated circuits and intellectual properties

International audienceThis paper reviews the current situation regarding design protection in the microelectronics industry. Over the past ten years, the designers of integrated circuits and intellectual properties have faced increasing threats including counterfeiting, reverse-engineering and theft. This is now a critical issue for the microelectronics industry, mainly for fabless designers and intellectual properties designers. Coupled with increasing pressure to decrease the cost and increase the performance of integrated circuits, the design of a secure, efficient, lightweight protection scheme for design data is a serious challenge for the hardware security community. However, several published works propose different ways to protect design data including functional locking, hardware obfuscation, and IC/IP identification. This paper presents a survey of academic research on the protection of design data. It concludes with the need to design an efficient protection scheme based on several properties

An ultra-lightweight transmitter for contactless rapid identification of embedded IP in FPGA

International audienceThis letter presents the first ultra-lightweight transmitter based on electromagnetic emanation to send embedded intellectual properties (IP) identity (ID) quickly and discreetly. The proposed solution is based on a binary frequency shift keying (BFSK) transmitter that ensures an exceptionally high data rate. In addition, we present a coherent demodulation method using slippery window spectral analysis to recover data outside the device. The hardware resources occupied by the transmitter represent less than 0.022% of a 130 nm Microsemi Fusion FPGA. The experimental bitrate of the data transmission is around 500 times higher than the bitrate available for other state of the art spy circuitry using power consumption. In comparison with other works, our proposal goes clearly towards using a spy circuit in an industrial context for IP protection

Electromagnetic Transmission of Intellectual Property Data to Protect FPGA Designs

International audienceOver the past 10 years, the designers of intellectual properties(IP) have faced increasing threats including cloning, counterfeiting, andreverse-engineering. This is now a critical issue for the microelectronicsindustry. The design of a secure, efficient, lightweight protection scheme fordesign data is a serious challenge for the hardware security community. In thiscontext, this chapter presents two ultra-lightweight transmitters using sidechannel leakage based on electromagnetic emanation to send embedded IPidentity discreetly and quickl