It has been a decade since the need of VLSI design intellectual property (IP) protection was identified [1,2]. The goals of IP protection are 1) to enable IP providers to protect ...
Lin Yuan, Gang Qu, Lahouari Ghouti, Ahmed Bouridan...
Highlighted with the newly released intellectual property (IP) protection white paper by VSI Alliance, the protection of virtual components (VCs) has received a large amount of at...
While previous watermarking-based approaches to intellectual property protection (IPP) have asymmetrically emphasized the IP provider's rights, the true goal of IPP is to ens...
Andrew E. Caldwell, Hyun-Jin Choi, Andrew B. Kahng...
When VLSI technology scales toward 45nm, the lithography wavelength stays at 193nm. This large gap results in strong refractive effects in lithography. Consequently, it is a huge...