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4. Salutary hardware (salware) to protect the intellectual property of designers
An interesting solution for protecting the intellectual property of integrated circuit designers is to control the distribution of their circuits by inserting salutary hardware , the aim of which is to prevent the use of a circuit without the designer's authorization. Finally, the goal is to develop a chain of licenses for the use of hardware, essential for both IP and IC designers. This is what we will discuss in this chapter, starting with ways of blocking a circuit during manufacture for post-foundry activation.
4.1 Activating an integrated circuit after manufacture
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Bibliography
Software tools
PUFmeter, [Software], PUF statistical analysis tool, Trust-Hub, University of Florida, USA – http://trust-hub.org/software
Websites
Website of the ANR SALWARE project led by the Laboratoire Hubert Curien of the CNRS and the University of Lyon, aimed at combating counterfeiting, theft and copying of integrated electronic circuits and IP: https://perso.univ-st-etienne.fr/bl16388h/salware/
Website of the European H2020 HECTOR project, which...
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