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Sequence-aware watermark design for soft IP embedded processors

Sequence-aware watermark design for soft IP embedded processors
Sequence-aware watermark design for soft IP embedded processors
This paper describes a design approach for incorporating sequence-aware watermarks in soft IP embedded processors. The influence of watermark sequence parameters on detection, area and power overheads is examined, and consequently a sequence-aware method for incorporating sequence-aware watermarks in soft IP Embedded Processors is proposed. The intrinsic parameters of sequences, such as the activity factor and the overlapping factor are introduced, and their impact on correlation results is demonstrated. Measurement experimental results from FPGA and ASIC validate the design approach and demonstrate the resulting IP protection and subsequent costs for constrained embedded processors. Results presented in this paper show that the tradeoff occurs between the watermark robustness against third party IP attacks and hardware implementation costs. The analysis of this tradeoff is provided and an application
specific watermark implementation is proposed.
watermarking, IP protection, embedded processors, correlation power analysis
1063-8210
1-14
Kufel, Jedrzej
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Wilson, Peter R.
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Hill, Stephen
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Al-Hashimi, Bashir M.
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Wilson, Peter R.
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Kufel, Jedrzej, Wilson, Peter R., Hill, Stephen and Al-Hashimi, Bashir M. (2015) Sequence-aware watermark design for soft IP embedded processors. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Summer Issue, 1-14. (doi:10.1109/TVLSI.2015.2399457).

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This paper describes a design approach for incorporating sequence-aware watermarks in soft IP embedded processors. The influence of watermark sequence parameters on detection, area and power overheads is examined, and consequently a sequence-aware method for incorporating sequence-aware watermarks in soft IP Embedded Processors is proposed. The intrinsic parameters of sequences, such as the activity factor and the overlapping factor are introduced, and their impact on correlation results is demonstrated. Measurement experimental results from FPGA and ASIC validate the design approach and demonstrate the resulting IP protection and subsequent costs for constrained embedded processors. Results presented in this paper show that the tradeoff occurs between the watermark robustness against third party IP attacks and hardware implementation costs. The analysis of this tradeoff is provided and an application
specific watermark implementation is proposed.

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Accepted/In Press date: January 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 20 March 2015
Published date: 20 March 2015
Keywords: watermarking, IP protection, embedded processors, correlation power analysis
Organisations: Electronics & Computer Science

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Local EPrints ID: 373734
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/373734
ISSN: 1063-8210
PURE UUID: 2f82fb1c-9e42-4f7c-a8ee-19938021e397

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Date deposited: 27 Jan 2015 11:42
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 18:56

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Author: Jedrzej Kufel
Author: Peter R. Wilson
Author: Stephen Hill
Author: Bashir M. Al-Hashimi

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