Exploring unified biometrics with encoded dictionary for hardware security of fault secured IP core designs

Abstract

This paper presents a novel methodology to explore unified biometrics with encoded dictionary for hardware security of fault secured digital signal processing (DSP) intellectual property (IP) core designs against piracy. The proposed security approach exploits scheduled and allocated DSP design using behavioral synthesis process to generate a fault secured DSP IP core. Since the fault secured IP designs are susceptible to threats of piracy, therefore the proposed technique embeds encoded unified biometric based hardware security constraints into the design to provide detective control against IP piracy. This result into generation of protected fault secured DSP designs against IP piracy thereby ensuring the safety of end consumers against pirated and non-reliable designs. The offered security strength and design cost of the proposed approach exhibits significantly higher strength of digital evidence ensuring assured piracy detection and higher strength against regenerating unified biometric driven hardware security constraints than recent approaches. © 2023 Elsevier Ltd