Hardware Obfuscation Driven by QR Pattern using High Level Transformations
Sharath Kumar D.R.V.A · International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering · 2019
This paper presents QR pattern enabled key driven approach for mitigating piracy problem over any digital design, hardware security and reverse engineering (RE) by obfuscation process.However, these techniques can able to achieve the protection with high resource utilization and power consumptions overheads and moreover structural changes alone cannot provide sufficient IP protection for the gate-level net list cores or the IC components.In order to narrow these gaps FSM based structural and functional obfuscation is proposed and key handling is solved using color QR code pattern driven random key extraction and elaborately analyzes confusion metric levels.The experimental evaluation is carried out for proving the logic obfuscation method using FIR DSP digital design.And finally the prevention of the adversary from any reverse engineers process in both the gate-level and the RTL level geometry of IP from piracy and overbuilding.Experimental evaluations demonstrate the low area, power, and trade off the performance over security level of the proposed obfuscation technique.