Open AccessFSM BASED DIGITAL WATERMARKING IN IP SECURITY
Author(s) -
Sk. Mastanbee,
G. Suseelamma,
E. Adinarayana
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of electrical and electronics engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2231-5284
DOI - 10.47893/ijeee.2013.1082
Subject(s) - digital watermarking , computer science , abstraction , watermark , embedding , process (computing) , embedded system , computer security , theoretical computer science , image (mathematics) , programming language , artificial intelligence , philosophy , epistemology
IP providers are in pressing need of a convenient means to track the illegal redistribution of the sold IPs. An active approach to protect a VLSI design against IP infringement is by embedding a signature that can only be uniquely generated by the IP author into the design during the process of its creation. a VLSI IP is developed in several levels of design abstraction with the help of many sophisticated electronic design automation tools. Each level of design abstraction involves solving some NP-complete optimization problems to satisfy a set of design constraints. In this paper, a new dynamic watermarking scheme is proposed. The watermark is embedded in the state transitions of FSM at the behavioral level.