Performance Evaluation for IP Protection Watermarking Techniques
Tingyuan Nie · InTech eBooks · 2012
The advance of processing technology has led to a rapid increase in IC design complexity. There are now more than thousand million transistors integrated on a chip, and the increasing trend is expected to continue until 2020 or later. This creates the design productivity gap between IC design (typically 20% per year) and IC manufacturing (over 40% per year), and this gap is becoming wider and wider. To close this gap, IP (intellectual property) reuse emerged as the most significant design technology innovation in the past decades. IP companies, third-party libraries, and industry organizations such as the VSIA (Virtual Socket Interface Alliance) have created high expectations for the value and reusability of design IP.