Opportunistic IP Birthmarking using Side Effects of Code Transformations on High-Level Synthesis

The increasing design and manufacturing costs are leading to globalize the semiconductor supply chain. However, a malicious attacker can resell a stolen Intellectual Property (IP) core, demanding methods to identify a relationship between a given IP and a potentially fraudulent copy. We propose a method to protect IP cores created with high-level synthesis (HLS): our method inserts a discrete birt...