Forensic engineering techniques for VLSI CAD tools
Darko Kirovski, David Liu, Jennifer L. A. Wong, Miodrag Potkonjak · 2000
The proliferation of the Internet has affected the business model of almost all semiconductor and VLSI CAD companies that rely on intellectual property (IP) as their main source of revenues. The fact that IP has become more accessible and easily transferable, has influenced the emergence of copyright infringement as one of the most common obstructions to e-commerce of IP.